Luke Bradnam health scare: Popular Channel Nine weather presenter had an aggressive skin cancer removed, his identical twin brother Ash reveals

Popular news presenter Luke Bradnam has undergone emergency surgery to remove an ‘aggressive’ skin cancer from his torso.

The 9 News Gold Coast weather reporter went under the knife on Thursday after an inconspicuous mark on his ribcage turned out to be an ‘aggressive’ melanoma. 

‘My brother had a melanoma cut out of him yesterday – it’s super aggressive,’ Nova radio host Ash Bradnam told co-hosts Susie O’Neill and David ‘Luttsy’ Lutteral on Friday. 

‘They cut six millimetres out of him, so they went down six millimetres, and now he has to wait to see whether he has this thing called clear margins, the doctor thinks it’s confident because they got onto it so quickly.’ 

Ash said his twin brother initially noticed a mole on his collarbone, which turned out to be benign, before a mark on his side sparked concerns during an examination.

‘Turns out that mole on the collarbone, that’s fine,’ Ash said.

‘It was just like it had been aggravated or something.

‘The mole that was the danger was on his right rib cage, it looked just like a mark, he said it was like a like the size of half a matchstick head,’ he added. 

If it wasn’t for the benign mole on Luke’s collarbone, Ash warned, the malignant one might have gone undetected. 

The 9 News Gold Coast weather reporter (pictured) initially had a mark on his collarbone which turned out to be benign

Luke Bradnam’s (pictured, with his wife Lauren Bradnam) twin brother Ash shared the news with his Nova co-hosts Susie O’Neill and David ‘Luttsy’ Lutteral on Friday

‘The crazy thing about it is that if he didn’t have that mole on his collarbone – this is the type of thing that within a short space of time – because apparently once it sits down deeper into your skin, if it gets into your lymph nodes, then it’s like it’s on a highway to wherever it wants, and then you’re in big trouble,’ he recalled.

The radio host booked in to have a skin check next Thursday with concerns for his own health as he shares the same genetic makeup as his brother. 

‘I’m getting tested because I haven’t been tested for a long time. I’m actually a little bit nervous about it,’ he said.

Ash urged listeners to check themselves for any unusual spots even if they have no family history of skin cancer.

‘Our parents don’t have it, so we were like, ‘Oh, we’ve got good skin’ – but there you go, my identical twin brother did, so same genetics.’