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It depends.  

From the way your doctor phrased it, it sounds as if the deep margin was clear (they didn't slice through the melanoma, but under it).  If this is the case, then the 0.2mm is very, very shallow and the wide local excision will be all that's necessary, and you will be cancer-free.  No scans, no lymph node biopsies.  Now, if the melanoma extended to the deep margin, then you won't know depth until after the WLE.  

Is there any way you can get your hands on the pathology report?

Hi MelSettle, like many here at MRF, weve been battling Melanoma for years, i mean 10, 15 {plus} years, for its been 10years {2008 Diag date} 6 surgeries since & as of Nov 2017 started my first round of Immunol Therapy and still doing so. If yer now part of the sweet Family,  The MRF Family, so it is done. No matter what good, bad or still undetermined it is, you have us…Nice to meet you, im Mike..

In general, even shave biopsies go deeper than .2mm.  It's hard to remove that little amount of skin.  So the chances are your deep margins are clear.  Most likely stage 1a.  If the deep margin is clear, then staging is basically based on the biopsy itself, not after they remove additional tissue.  It's rare to find anything on the wide excision that changes the biopsy results on a lesion like this.  Stage 1 has a fantastic prognosis.  Remove more tissue to achieve WIDE margins (guards against a stray cell being missed) and then you move on.   As long as the pathology report says your deep margin was clear, you really don't have to worry about the pathology report on the wide excision — even if it takes 3 weeks.  It isn't going to change anything.  It's a shock, but it looks like you caught it very early and are in a good place.