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Melanoma and placenta abruption?
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Melanoma and placenta abruption?

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    • May 31, 2013 at 2:13 am
    Littlea41
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      Hello. I was diagnosed with melanoma back in march an found out I was pregnant 3 days later. We lost our son from a placenta abruption at 16 weeks. So far there are no answers, nothing pointing to what caused this. I’m just curious if anyone has heard of this happening to melanoma patients. I’m still waiting in the pathology from the placenta (its been over 3 weeks) which tells me they either lost the sample or they found something bad and need to confirm or do other tests.

      Any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated as I can only find a couple publications on melanoma and the loss of a pregnancy.

      Andrea

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        • May 31, 2013 at 2:17 am
        Janner
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          What stage are you?

          If you're not stage IV, then I would think it extremely unlikely that any of this was related to melanoma.  Melanoma can pass through the placenta to a fetus but there are only a handful of cases where this has happened.  If you aren't already stage IV, that seems unlikely.  I hope you find some answers.

          Janner

          • May 31, 2013 at 2:17 am
          Janner
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            What stage are you?

            If you're not stage IV, then I would think it extremely unlikely that any of this was related to melanoma.  Melanoma can pass through the placenta to a fetus but there are only a handful of cases where this has happened.  If you aren't already stage IV, that seems unlikely.  I hope you find some answers.

            Janner

            • May 31, 2013 at 2:17 am
            Janner
            Participant

              What stage are you?

              If you're not stage IV, then I would think it extremely unlikely that any of this was related to melanoma.  Melanoma can pass through the placenta to a fetus but there are only a handful of cases where this has happened.  If you aren't already stage IV, that seems unlikely.  I hope you find some answers.

              Janner

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