Clark’s Nevus Pathology Report

Depending on your insurance, the doctor might get paid less for doing a surgery on the same day as the biopsies.  That might be the only reason.  It's worth asking the question.

Although Susan has a valid point and you should always ask those kinds of questions, there may possibly be another reason that your surgeon does not want to wait. My husband Roy had a red raised bumpy patch of skin on the right side of his face that I first noticed in 2014. Our family physician brushed it off and did not biopsy. In 2015 I insisted on a biopsy. Nevoid malignant melanoma send tumors down into the skin rather than spreading across the skin and is often undiagnosed until it is very advanced because it doesn't look like traditional melanoma. It took 3 weeks to get the results back because the samples were sent to 3 different labs. Each lab had a different opinion. 1 said the results were "inclusive", one suggested Dysplastic Nevus, and the final one concluded that it was nevoid malignant melanoma. I totally understand the appeal in waiting, but although my husband's really looked nothing on the surface it turned out to be 5mm deep with multiple nodules. The surgery to remove it (wide excision) and to create a skin flap took 5 hours. Had we waited, he may have been too far gone to be helped. That was 2 years ago. Although it is now back and metastasized, Stage IV, and he is being treated with Opdivo and Yervoy (with promising results thus far), we had 18 months NED (no evidence of disease) thanks to moving quickly and having wonderful surgeons and oncologists and dermatologists. You may regret having waited. You will probably never regret being too careful.