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Hi there, new to the group. I had a biopsy done nearly 3 weeks ago and having contacted both my Dr and consultant I was told no results were back yet but that my consultant was good at sending a letter when he had them. I then received a letter this morning...
Hi all So as my melanoma is now stage 4 ,has spread to my lung and liver. Decided we need to live not just exist,as don't know how long I have. MRI and CT today to see how the spread is responding to targeted therapy. So booked a holiday. Insurance...
Hi Having been given a melanoma diagnosis pT2a … I am due a WLE and sentinel lobe biopsy on 24th. The mapping is taking place on 23rd. Firstly, the hospital had booked me in for an overnight stay on 23rd after mapping but I’ve told them I’ll go home...
Hi I’m new on here. I had a melanoma on my neck removed 2years ago. I had regular very thorough checks by the dermatology department on my skin. In my ignorance I was not aware it could spread internally I now have metastasis in several organs & my brain...
Sorry if this has been asked in a previous thread. I had a punch excision and an elliptical one just under 3 weeks ago now. Six week wait for results apparently. The punch on my calf was to remove a small mole that initially bled then scabbed over without...
It’s been a month since my melanoma diagnosis. I consider myself very lucky as I’ve been told it was stage 1A and all the cancer cells were removed in the initial excision. I’ve just got the wle to go which looks like it’s going to be in the next month...
Hi all After 6 long weeks my results are in - 2 benign moles. I feel a bit cross as the consultant was so sure they were melanoma - but I should have listened to you all here who told me he couldn’t know for certain without the biopsy results! I...
Hi, I just joined the forum, although I've been reading some of the posts since I was diagnosed with melanoma last summer. I had a mole that became a bit weird so got it checked, removed, analyzed and... it was melanoma (stage 1b). It was quite a shock...
Hi all, my husband had a mole removed on his back 6th April. Since then we have been in one long waiting holding pattern to get some form of certainty about the staging of the diagnosis. Diagnosis 21st April - melanoma 0.6mm + ulceration (1B breslow...
Probably a really thick question this. When I got my diagnosis last Tuesday that I had superficial Melanoma 3.9mm I just went into my own little world worrying every single minute about dying and leaving my lovely wife and our lovely 3 boys and of course...
