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Hi all, I hope everyone is well and taking care in the warm weather. I have a shiny new parasol. i'm wondering about the variable recurrence rates are you happy to share time between diagnosis and recurrence?
Hi, just joined the group. Struggling a bit with diagnosis. Had WLE and SLNB on 25th March. Waited a while for results appointment which was on the 19th May where I found out melanoma had spread to lymph node. Was a shock to find melanoma now Stage 3b...
Hi there I had lymph node groin dissection 5 weeks ago and Melanoma was found in one lymph node out of 9 and I have been referred to oncology for further treatment.I turned down immunotherapy treatment in 2020 but now feel with this diagnosis I should...
Hi all, Had a follow up appointment with plastic surgery unit after WLE and SLNB scheduled for 29th June (about 8 weeks after surgery). It's been bumped forward to this Wednesday. Is it likely just to be a check up on healing etc.? Or results from biopsy...
Hi there my husband has recently been diagnoised with melanoma , breslow scale 2.7mm , ct scan showed incidentaly finding of tiny 2mm lung nodule which they feel is not concerning however they will review in 3 months awaiting wide local incision and SNB...
Hi all. New to the group. My 81 year old dad has a body full of moles and he noticed one was bleeding in february so made an appointment. He only did this because my mum was dying of covid in hospital and didn't want us worrying if it wasn't anything...
Hi all just seeking others experience of Pembrolizumab Iv recently had my second treatment and all is going well apart from a little tiredness Iv not experienced and other side effects so far. my worry is that I can feel the cancer growing as is on two...
Stage 3 melanoma just had groin lymph nodes removed and once healed will be on treatment. I should have celebrated 5 years reaching end of monitoring but it all came back so many removals and now lymph nodes. Unexpectedly told they think I have a...
Hello all I had a mole removed and diagnosed 1@ 29th April. I'm awaiting my WLE 21stJune. Over the weekend I have noticed white patches where it looks like moles/freckles have disappeared. Just wondered if anyone has had the same and what was the outcome...
I had my WLE last week on my upper arm and since then my elbow is swollen and extremely itchy It was swollen after the original mole was removed but the doctor thought it was bursitis and gave me anti-biotics to take it away. The swelling did go down...
