I've just had my results from ai photography through an urgent referral that's detected my mole is a magliment melanoma and I've had an appointment through for a plastic surgeon on the 7th July I'm absolutely beside myself and my anxiety is taking me to the worst stage of cancer has anyone else gone through this please as all I read this is the worst type of skin cancer
Hi DISNEYFAN 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 nearly 9 years ago now so I know how scared you're probably feeling right now.
You are right that melanoma is the worst of the skin cancers to have as it does have the possibility of spreading to other organs whereas it's rare for other types of skin cancer to do this.
However, the only way to know if your mole is a melanoma is for it to be removed and sent off to the pathology laboratories. Neither AI or a human can tell just by looking at it whether it's melanoma or not, but if it's suspicious then a biopsy is automatically done. I've had 2 suspicious moles removed, one turned out to be melanoma and the other didn't.
The online community is divided into different support groups so I'm going to recommend that you join us over in the melanoma group as you'll then connect directly with others who understand what you're going through and who will be happy to share their experiences with you.
To join, just click on the link I've created and, once you've joined, you can start a new post in the same way as you did here and join in with existing conversations by clicking on 'reply'.
If you want to look at my 'journey' with melanoma just click on my username or avatar.
"Never regret a day in your life, good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience"
Just click on my username and you can read it there 
"Never regret a day in your life, good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience"
