Hello all. I was diagnosed with stage 2 nodular melanoma 3 years ago and found this forum a really useful support group. I’m back now with a question which I wondered if anyone could help with. After my original op to remove the nodular melanoma I had a wide local excision and sentinel lymph node biopsy both of which were clear fortunately. I’ve been back to the hospital today and had another procedure to remove a suspicious lesion about 10cm away from my original melanoma site. This was a 1cm area which was flat and mid brown with irregular shape. My dermatologist said he’s testing for melanoma in situ. He didn’t think it could linked to the original melanoma but I’m obvs fairly concerned that it could be too much of a coincidence to be completely unrelated in virtually the same place on the back of my top arm. My question (sorry for being long winded!) is can recurrent melanoma look different to the original or would a nodular melanoma only recurr as another nodular rather than potential a flat spread out one? Thank you to anyone who may be able to shed some light. X
