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Not a forum anyone wants to join i guess but happy to know there’s a community out there to help. So hi - I’m jacqui, 51, diagnosed last week with Invasive Malignant Melanoma pT2a. This comes after being told two years ago that my suspect mole was just...
Hello everyone, I have today been diagnosed with stage 2melanoma from a mole on my back (shoulder blade area) my initial surgery has removed it with clear margins which must mean something good right?… I will be having WLE & SLNB the next 3 months. I...
Hello there! As this is my first post, I am cheating a little and beginning by posting my own 'bio' - I like to believe I am efficient rather than lazy "Husband to Mrs Slappy, who was diagnosed & treated for a melanoma on her back. Mole removed...
We’ve just had a shock diagnosis for my 70 yr old Dad. He was successfully treated for a melanoma 5 years ago and then in January this year he noticed a couple of lumps under the skin at the site of his previous melanoma (on the trunk, near the ribs...
Should be CT and MRI scans
Following surgery to remove all 35 lymph glands in his armpit my husband is now waiting to begin a course of immunotherapy. He had to wait for his st and our scan results. He had been told it is stage 3B cancer. We have been told of the side effects had...
Hi everyone, I first discovered something was wrong when one day after a shower I noticed blood on the towel, thinking to myself where it had come from so I had a look in the mirror and noticed 2 nodules on my upper back. They looked like skin tags...
Hi, I was diagnosed with stage 2b melanoma in November, I had wle and slnb. Lymph nodes clear and I had a ct scan. Saw the consultant this week who said that there was a spot on my liver, radiologists state it’s a hemanginoma but consultant has ordered...
Hello everyone, this is my first post on this forum so I will explain my story a bit. I’m a 43 year old mother of 3. Diagnosed stage 1b in July 2021. SLNB all clear. Everything was fine until recently when a lump appeared just under my WLE scar. It was...
Hello I’m rather shocked by my diagnosis of a Stage 2c melanoma it was just a small round lump which didn’t heal on my upper chest. After having an insignificant finding staging ct scan I think my next port of call is a WLE and sentinel lymph node biopsy...
