Good afternoon community
My wife has been waiting almost 8 weeks for results from a mole removal. We’d not heard anything in this time but after she emailed the clinic yesterday to chase up she got an email letter for an appointment in 2 weeks time.
Obviously this immediately triggers anxiety that something is wrong, and she has this morning had an appointment for something else and asked the doctor there. They shouldn’t have shown her but they did see a letter confirming the mole to be a malignant melanoma but he couldn’t say anything else due to his lack of understanding, and he did apologise massively. That aside as it’s not the problem here, my wife did see on the letter something about the mole being Clark level 4 and within a 1.6cm margin. Does anybody know what this means please? I know it’s not related to stage but don’t know how much we should be worried.
She has asked for somebody at the clinic to please call her but we haven’t heard anything yet. We just want to know how urgent this could be as we are obviously scared, and also is a 2 week wait for a follow up appointment normal after a near 8 week wait for results? Would she be rushed in sooner if it was advanced?
Thanks for any help and advice here.
Hi Jonathan1981 and a very warm welcome to the online community which I hope you'll find is both an informative and supportive place to be.
I’m Anne, one of the Community Champions here on the Online Community and I was diagnosed with melanoma 8 years ago.
The online community is divided into different support groups and I can see that you've already found and posted your question in the melanoma group. I'll reply to you on there in a while but I've just got to pop out.
In the meantime you might want to take a look at my profile, by clicking on my username or profile photo, to read about my 'journey' with melanoma.
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