I had a melanoma removal, with SLNB, in summer 2021. Over the last six months or so, maybe longer, I have a red spot appear on the scar randomly, normally when I sleep. It fades, and even sometimes moves across the scar, over the course of a few hours...
Hello everyone. I’ve just been to my post op appointment with my nurse after a WLE on my left shoulder for MM pt1a in February. She did a full check of my lymph nodes and noticed in my armpit a tightness and when she pressed it hurt. On my way home the...
Hi everyone, Following my Melanoma diagnosis in March this year I have not been able to stop thinking about what if it is somewhere else on my body and it just hasn’t been found yet. My original melanoma was a very tiny dark brown spot - not raised...
Hi i I had a lump on my thigh which was diagnosed as melanoma and it had spread to my lungs. I was treated with nivolumab and ipilibumab. I lasted three sessions before I got ill and was hospitalised with colitis and then pneumonitis which I understand...
My mum has just been diagnosed with melanoma in the bowel, has anyone had any experience of this?
Anyone else feel depressed and anxiety after treatment has finished and just having regular scans because it had gone i cant understand it fought it for five years
Had a wide exision on my left forearm after having a melanoma diagnosed in April. Despite consultant concern there may have been an early recurrence no melanoma was subsequently discovered and today the nurse, after a thorough exam declared me cancer...
I was diagnosed with stage 2B melanoma last month, literally a month after I lost my grandad to cancer so it’s all hit very hard! I'm now waiting to have surgery for a wide local excision and Sentinel lymph node biopsy. I will be having a skin graft with...
Hi all, Hope your all doing well. Just a question really, my husband had a big nasty looking mole removed 2 months ago, and if you looked at it, it had all the makings of a melonoma. It was large, changing, uneven, scaley and several colours. Thankfully...
Hello. So I have had this mole on my back since I was a child. It’s around 7-8mm. I felt it the other day and it felt slightly raised. I’m unsure as to whether it was always this way. I went to get it checked by GP and she said the only thing she can...
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