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Hi, diagnosed stage 3c on the 26th November. First appointment with hospital next week, feels as though I have a huge fight ahead. Started with a swollen lymph node, then had a very old mole removed due to bleeding then my world fell apart.
My fiancé was doing really well after 2 months on Dab and Tram, and his first scan showed the tumours in his lung and liver had gone, and the tumour in a lymph node in his chest had reduced. Just after he started getting a cough, then the shivering and...
Hi I have been reading posts in here for the last 2 months since going to GP with a mole on my face that appeared in 2017, somehow I had convinced myself that it had always been present. Coincidently so did everyone I know not notice it changing. Was...
Hi everyone, so I’ve had a call asking me to go in to see my SCNS on Wednesday to discuss the results of my WLE & SLNB 4 weeks ago. I’m not going to lie I’m very worried and stressed about it as everything else has been done over the phone including diagnosis...
Hi, I am new to the forum and the group. I have recently been diagnosed with Melanoma in my lymph node under my armpit following a biopsy. I had my COVID jab back in June and literally about three days later I got a egg size lump under my arm and a small...
Hi all, My husband was diagnosed with a stage 2b melanoma at the beginning of September. Thickness was 3.8mm and it was ulcerated. The melanoma had grown within a large mole he’s had since birth. It is just in from his hip. We were in total shock...
Good afternoon everyone, I had my stitches out yesterday from my mole excision. Bizarrely I felt comforted when the nurse commented how amazingly the wound had healed with stitches embedded in the skin! This morning I had the phone call with the results...
Hello I am newly diagnosed with 1b melanoma with a WLE and SLNB booked for Friday. Ive been very aware of my body since the diagnosis and am super paranoid about every other mole and am checking my lymph nodes very regularly. Today I have pain in my...
Hi all, I have been meaning to post for a while now but have waited until today after having an excisional biopsy for a referral that was made last September. I have had a mole for around or over ten years now that changed it's 'architecture drastically...
Hi- had a mole removed in November and had a call on xmas eve that it was malignant despite being seen by 2 dermatologists - one privately who both said it looked ok. At time of removal the constant asked if I wanted to proceed- thank goodness I did....
