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    • July 7, 2018 at 12:51 am
    ray39
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      Hello all…. 4 years ago I had what I was almost sure was a cancerous mole removed from my back.  It turned out it was severely dysplastic and I had a wide excision done.  A month later I had another removed, this one moderately dysplastic, another wide excision. A month later another mole from my stomach came back normal. Since then I’ve been going to the dermatologist every 6 months.  I’ve had a mole on my leg that’s been there forever.  It was dark, about 3mm wide and hadn’t changed.  No bleeding or itching, well defined borders, one half the same as the other.  Well, my dr said let’s remove it so we don’t have to worry about it.  Now, going through the waiting period is again brutal.  He said 90 percent chance it’s nothing, but now I’m wishing I had left it and monitored it instead of sitting here worrying.  

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