Hi, I'm new here. I sure hope this group is still active. My MM is, or rather was on my face. They removed the mole without testing it first so I had to have a...
I am the one that had the two moles on my upper inner thigh. I have been reading some messages about not haveing shave biopsies. Well the nurse practisioner...
Hi all, I posted a week or two ago about my DH who was recently diagnosed with melanoma. It turned out the melanoma was .9mm in thickness and my DH had an...
Everyone should have a CAT scan at most 5 years after having a melanoma removed. That will ensure if it had metastised or not "Patricia J. Hauldren"...
If it does come back as Melanoma then can they go back and do a 2nd biopsy and get it under the skin and add that to the shaved biopsy to measure it total?--- ...
For additional information...PET scans are even better. Cancer cells are highly active compared to normal cell activity. With the solution they use to inject...
I would highly recommend following up with getting sound advice about doing the sentinal node biopsy. My husband had one mole removed and it had spread to 2 of...
What is the difference in a Pet scan and a Cat scan. Is one of them the full body scan? Does diabetes have anything to do with causing cancer do you think? ......
... wrote:Or maybe it isn't as good as a whole biopsy? ... From my understanding, it is because it doesn't get the whole sample, therefore can give a false...
The SNB is a check to see if there is any speading to the nodes. It is fairly invasive as surgery to remove the indentified nodes is requires usually only 2-3...
Stacy, I am not sure what has happened to you. They removed a mole on your face but didn't biopsy it. Now they took a bigger chunk out of your face to biopsy...
Ok that was pretty off*lol* They removed a mole on my face that was malignant,but they didn't biopsy it before hand so they had to remove more of the...
Yeah, what stage was it and what size? What dye test did you do? I didnt have one of those done. I had stage two .44 on my leg removed last year. Ilene ... ...
I don't know what stage it was but it was 10 mm. I don't know what you mean by what dye test,Is there more than one type of dye test? Stacy ... didnt have one...
Stacy, I dont know if there is. Well I know they almost did the dye test on me that lights up your lymph nodes. There also is a body scan they put dye in you...
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Ilene, I had the lymph node dye test. Same thing happened to me with the dermotologist. He said it wasn't the kind of mole that would ever become cancerous in...
there are a number of dietary changes that will certainly help with boosting the immune system and overall improving health. i will be happy to share with you...
A PET scan looks at cellular activity which can be an earlier detection of cancer cell invasion into the tissue. A CAT scan looks at anatomical areas of our...
I wonder why my doctor hasn't had a scan done on me. Also, where I had the cancer cut out last year in January, my leg in that spot hurts some times. Does that...
I want to know the dietary changes too. Ilene ... From: mssheshie kern To: melanoma@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 9:58 PM Subject: Re:...
Stacy, Sounds like you had a fun time. When will you find out if the lymph nodes are clear? It really makes me not trust the doctors when I think it looks...
Ilene, I'm a baby about pain too for the most part. When they injected the dye into me I cried. I've heard people say that part didn't hurt them so maybe it's...
