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Hey Katelyn, I'm glad you had your excision, although it must have been very sore. I'm no doctor, but I haven't heard of a melanoma in situ being able to spread that quickly...usually it seems to be deeper lesions that are able to produce satellites or in transit mets, from what I have learned. However I could be wrong. This is something you will need to ask your doc about. I hope that they turn out not to be anything bad.

Had my follow up. The pathology report showed no issues with edge clearance so that indicates they removed enough. I had researched to find out the 5 and 10 year "survival rates" and was a bit concerned to find out for stage IIA, the 10 year SR was about 66%. When I mentioned this to the surgeon, he said, "you don't have stage IIA.... you have, hold on, let's look it up." I said, "I...

BTW, it looks like a normal freckel. It is triangle shaped. I don't know if that means anything. It does not look dark to me. If I had not scheduled to have the skin tags removed I don't think the Dr. would have said lets get this scraped off.

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Hello everyone, I"m so glad you are here. I"m awaiting biopsy results on a small, very dark pigmentation on my large toe. I noticed it at the end of September. The mark is not vertical - but circular and at the side of the nail. The dermatologist looked very closely at it, remarking it was not presenting in the places it normally does. He scheduled me for a biopsy two weeks later where he removed part of toe nail and did a...

wnaderer, This was my situation exactly. A scrape on a suspicious mole, positive for melanoma, followed by WLE. If a derm. suspects melanoma, they are supposed to do total removal as step one, but many don't. The only issue I've benn able to discover is that you simply don't get the proper staging in some cases on a scrape. My scrape was .25mm and the WLE showed .35. Other than the additional stress of waiting longer to get the...

Thanks so much for responding. I had my excision on November 17th. The area is still quite sore. I do have another question now though. Melanoma in situ was found when they punched the original mole back in the end of October. Soon after that a small freckle grew about an inch away from that same spot. Almost overnite after that another small freckle also grew not far from there. When i went for my excision my Dr. was worried about these two...

Lucy, sorry for not replying sooner. I have read all of those links and find this information to be very interesting. I had not heard about PV-10 before but then, I don't have any type of skin cancer. Thank you for the links.