newly diagnosed with melanoma ,please ,help!!!

I'm very sorry about the loss of your baby. Do they think IVF can be a cause because of the hormones used?

You had clear margins after your biopsy, which is really good and the tumor is gone. March is not very far away and I learned here that the surgery should be within 90 days.

There are a few of us here who just went through the wide excision and sentinel node surgeries and we received great results. My melanoma was on my upper arm/shoulder and my sentinel node was between my armpit and my breast. It was more than 5 weeks between my initial biopsy and the surgeries. You can see my pathology numbers in my profile if you want to compare them with yours.

I know this is a very scary time for you and you're grieving the loss of your child at the same time. The responses I received here helped me a lot. 

I'm very sorry about the loss of your baby. Do they think IVF can be a cause because of the hormones used?

You had clear margins after your biopsy, which is really good and the tumor is gone. March is not very far away and I learned here that the surgery should be within 90 days.

There are a few of us here who just went through the wide excision and sentinel node surgeries and we received great results. My melanoma was on my upper arm/shoulder and my sentinel node was between my armpit and my breast. It was more than 5 weeks between my initial biopsy and the surgeries. You can see my pathology numbers in my profile if you want to compare them with yours.

I know this is a very scary time for you and you're grieving the loss of your child at the same time. The responses I received here helped me a lot. 

I'm very sorry about the loss of your baby. Do they think IVF can be a cause because of the hormones used?

You had clear margins after your biopsy, which is really good and the tumor is gone. March is not very far away and I learned here that the surgery should be within 90 days.

There are a few of us here who just went through the wide excision and sentinel node surgeries and we received great results. My melanoma was on my upper arm/shoulder and my sentinel node was between my armpit and my breast. It was more than 5 weeks between my initial biopsy and the surgeries. You can see my pathology numbers in my profile if you want to compare them with yours.

I know this is a very scary time for you and you're grieving the loss of your child at the same time. The responses I received here helped me a lot. 

Hi.

I don't know how, or why, but my 1990 mole resection came back as benign. As it was 2 weeks before my wedding, I was happy as a lark, and just went on with my life (the only reason I even went in there to get it looked at was to "do the responsible thing" for my wife's benefit. I never would've guessed in a 1000 years anything was really wrong. I had a really non-chalant attitude towards it– until 1997). In Novermber 2000, I confronted the doctor, with latest CT report in hand (headed for my 3rd surgery in 3 weeks, and already into the 3rd year of a 4 year cliinical drug trial protocol), and he was so freaked out, he pulled my biopsy slide, had it rechecked, and it was determined then that the original biopsy was misdiagnosed.

It was further determined that even if I had been properly diagnosed it would not have helped. There have been times that I've honestly wondered if he deliberately mis-diagnosed me to give me a fighting chance, knowing that the medical treatments in 1990 would most certainly have resulted in my death within the standard period– 1-3 years. I had already had the mole for 3-1/2 years, so it was pretty well advanced by then.

The 2000 pathology report says it was a clarks level 4.

As it's been so long since that, I remember the mole being huge, and raised a good 1/8" above my leg surface. I don't really remember much else, save that it was black, had reddish edges, and would grow a scale-like surface on it, which I'd peel rather regularly. I remember pinching, teasing, squeezing, etc….

It hurt too.

Well, as I've never been to Britain, I cannot comment on what/how/why of the way things go there. I'd be bugging them for it. CLII is a good thing, in that it's been caught so early, you have a much better chance beating this than had you waited.

Hi.

I don't know how, or why, but my 1990 mole resection came back as benign. As it was 2 weeks before my wedding, I was happy as a lark, and just went on with my life (the only reason I even went in there to get it looked at was to "do the responsible thing" for my wife's benefit. I never would've guessed in a 1000 years anything was really wrong. I had a really non-chalant attitude towards it– until 1997). In Novermber 2000, I confronted the doctor, with latest CT report in hand (headed for my 3rd surgery in 3 weeks, and already into the 3rd year of a 4 year cliinical drug trial protocol), and he was so freaked out, he pulled my biopsy slide, had it rechecked, and it was determined then that the original biopsy was misdiagnosed.

It was further determined that even if I had been properly diagnosed it would not have helped. There have been times that I've honestly wondered if he deliberately mis-diagnosed me to give me a fighting chance, knowing that the medical treatments in 1990 would most certainly have resulted in my death within the standard period– 1-3 years. I had already had the mole for 3-1/2 years, so it was pretty well advanced by then.

The 2000 pathology report says it was a clarks level 4.

As it's been so long since that, I remember the mole being huge, and raised a good 1/8" above my leg surface. I don't really remember much else, save that it was black, had reddish edges, and would grow a scale-like surface on it, which I'd peel rather regularly. I remember pinching, teasing, squeezing, etc….

It hurt too.

Well, as I've never been to Britain, I cannot comment on what/how/why of the way things go there. I'd be bugging them for it. CLII is a good thing, in that it's been caught so early, you have a much better chance beating this than had you waited.

Hi.

I don't know how, or why, but my 1990 mole resection came back as benign. As it was 2 weeks before my wedding, I was happy as a lark, and just went on with my life (the only reason I even went in there to get it looked at was to "do the responsible thing" for my wife's benefit. I never would've guessed in a 1000 years anything was really wrong. I had a really non-chalant attitude towards it– until 1997). In Novermber 2000, I confronted the doctor, with latest CT report in hand (headed for my 3rd surgery in 3 weeks, and already into the 3rd year of a 4 year cliinical drug trial protocol), and he was so freaked out, he pulled my biopsy slide, had it rechecked, and it was determined then that the original biopsy was misdiagnosed.

It was further determined that even if I had been properly diagnosed it would not have helped. There have been times that I've honestly wondered if he deliberately mis-diagnosed me to give me a fighting chance, knowing that the medical treatments in 1990 would most certainly have resulted in my death within the standard period– 1-3 years. I had already had the mole for 3-1/2 years, so it was pretty well advanced by then.

The 2000 pathology report says it was a clarks level 4.

As it's been so long since that, I remember the mole being huge, and raised a good 1/8" above my leg surface. I don't really remember much else, save that it was black, had reddish edges, and would grow a scale-like surface on it, which I'd peel rather regularly. I remember pinching, teasing, squeezing, etc….

It hurt too.

Well, as I've never been to Britain, I cannot comment on what/how/why of the way things go there. I'd be bugging them for it. CLII is a good thing, in that it's been caught so early, you have a much better chance beating this than had you waited.