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Hi,I posted a while ago as my wife had been diagnosed with melanoma from a mole.Through scans etc it was then diagnosed in the armpit lymph nodes.She went in Thursday for lymph node dissection and a wider excision of the original area.While in hospital...
Hello I am 33 year old male single father to a severely autistic child, I noticed this small black mark on my leg last summer but didn't get it checked out until march this year. I was quickly referred to dermatologist who removed it and biopsied it...
Hello, I started targeted therapy - dabrafenib and trametinib - for stage 3b melanoma in January. I am BRAF positive. I’ve had a series of side effects (and, to be fair, winter bugs which have needed antibiotics) so have stop started treatment the whole...
Good Morning all you special people Quick back story of my cancer journey, as I want to find other Groin Dissection survivors I had a small malignant melanoma 12 years ago on my right shin, and a few cancer cells escaped and having been living rent...
I was diagnosed with stage 1b a couple of weeks ago, and I do think that I was lucky it wasn't anything more serious. I had the mole removed from my stomach and as such I have not been able to much for the last 4 to 5 weeks. I'm now starting to feel better...
Has anyone had a mole return on their wle scar? I had a melanoma removed 7 months ago from my ear. A brown mark has appeared which straddles the scar and is getting bigger and darker. It isn’t raised like the original mole. I mentioned it at my last check...
Hi I have a Seroma, fluid build up, in my groin after lymph node removal it can be uncomfortable after exercise or being more active.I have been told it will eventually go by itself but it could take some time.Any advice or living with it?
Hi all I’m confused at my recent diagnosis for malignant melanoma. I didn’t get much by way of explanation from the dermatologist when I saw him but he did give me my histology report. Mine says the following: Invasive Malignant Melanoma with superficial...
Hello all, I was diagnosed with melanoma in January 2019, stage 1b. I had a mole appear on my melanoma scar about two months ago, at least I noticed it then, dermatologist was happy with it and didn’t think it looked concerning. I was still concerned...
Hi I had a mole removed on my leg just over 7 weeks ago and had the results around 3 weeks after that (diagnosed with melanoma). I was then told that they needed to go back in to remove more around the area which I had been given a date for next week...
