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Hi i was diagnosed a year ago with stage 4 melanoma. I had a skin graft on my wrist and all my lymph nodes removed from under my armpit. 2 out of 25 nodes removed were positive for melanoma but CT scan showed no other suspect areas. I was then given...
Hi, Had WLE and SLNB on 7th April and now just waiting for biopsy results. Had various estimates given to me at different points in time, I think the shortest was 3 weeks (which has now elapsed) and longest was 6 weeks. I also think that I was told...
Hi I'm new to this site, I had a mole removed January which came back as stage 1a, a couple if weeks later I had a deeper wider excision which came back all clear, But since the op I have developed loads of dark moles which started on my chest and...
Following WLE & PET, it’s occurred to me that as further treatment of my melanoma is going to be necessary, drug therapy could get complicated with my sero-positive rheumatoid arthritis. Has anyone out there got this compination, please?
Recent told I have melanoma. At present graded as stage 2, however this may change after further tests. Been referred to plastic surgeon for eide local excision and test to check lymph nodes had CTcan of head, chest, abdomen and pelis a few days ago now...
Hi I’m just feeling so down at the moment. Waiting for results of blood tests and discussion on last scan. I have a small lump on neck and inflammation on lungs. They think maybe covid has affected my lung but I do worry. How does everyone cope.
Hello, So a summary of what has happened so far for context- I went to the GP for a bothersome mole. Overall not worried but it's been causing lots of problems and the gp didn't seem too worried but referred to dermatology as routine. As the waiting...
Hi all. I wanted to update you all to let you know I had the results of my WLE and SLNB and it was good news. So no spread detected! they took 4 lymph nodes and all were clear. So relieved it’s overwhelming. You’ll see from my profile I was told originally...
Hi. I was diagnosed with malignant melanoma and had a wle and slnb at the beginning of feb and fortunately it hadn’t spread anywhere. 3 months on and I still have a hard egg sized lump in groin where lymph nodes are were removed and I’ve started to get...
Hi everyone, This is my first post, so I may be doing this in the wrong place-apologies if so. My husband has had 3 melanomas removed since he first presented in 2008. Recently, he had two moles removed very close together, which turned out to be...
