During full lockdown summer 2020, I sent our gp pictures of a mole on my mums back, they said they had no concerns and maybe get it checked once things got back to normal, but if we had any Concerns to message. That sep she fell and broke her hip, and then in the Oct fell and broke her femur on the side of the hip replacement. My dad then got diagnosed with multiple spread of cancer in the nov, he had early diagnosed oesophageal cancer that had been treated with radiotherapy in 2018, and shown it had shrunk and just had to monitor, obviously through covid the scans was not done and just phone consultations, and generally he felt fine until the sep 2020 when his tummy started swelling, he sadly passed away dec 2020, with everything that went on the mole took a back step and my mum never mentioned it until may 2021 when it started bleeding, by this point it had grown outwards and looked very nasty, the gp referred her straight away and the doctor thought it was a melanoma. She had a biopsy at the hospital followed by a wle and was diagnosed with malignant melanoma breslow depth 11mm, T4b n1c m0. They told her they had got everything and offered immunotherapy in nov last year, but at the time she didn’t feel strong enough for treatment. She had ct and mri at Christie’s at the end of feb and something was seen, so has had to have a pet scan. We are all out of our minds with worry and obviously she will now take any treatment she is offered. I’m just looking for any advice, we tried to tell her to have treatment last year, but with all the trauma she had been through she wasn’t in the right place, and flatly refused. She currently seems well and has no symptons of anything.
