New 2 Melanoma; Pathology report help

I think the surgical onc is wrong, you are stage 1b at the moment.  With no ulceration, stage 1b goes up to 2mm.  T2aN0M0 is stage 1b.

https://www.melanoma.org/understand-melanoma/diagnosing-melanoma/stages-of-diagnosis

The pieces in your report that relate to staging(prognostic indicators) are depth, ulceration and mitosis.  Your depth is considered intermediate (1-4mm).  Ulceration is absent  – good.  Mitosis is 4.  Preferably it would be 0.  4 would probably also be intermediate.  That is the rate at which cells are dividing.  The only thing not noted is if the deep margin is clear.  Since it is noted the peripheral margins are not clear, I'm assuming the deep is clear or it would have been noted.

At this point, there is nothing to research and nothing to do except wait.  You'll have plenty of time to research later when you know the results of your SNB.  Until then, it is pointless.  One way you basically move on and the other you may consider treatments or trials.  But going there ahead of time is not a productive way to spend time.  You have a new baby and it's the holidays!  Ignore the rest until you have to deal with it.  Googling is not your friend at this point.

I think the surgical onc is wrong, you are stage 1b at the moment.  With no ulceration, stage 1b goes up to 2mm.  T2aN0M0 is stage 1b.

https://www.melanoma.org/understand-melanoma/diagnosing-melanoma/stages-of-diagnosis

The pieces in your report that relate to staging(prognostic indicators) are depth, ulceration and mitosis.  Your depth is considered intermediate (1-4mm).  Ulceration is absent  – good.  Mitosis is 4.  Preferably it would be 0.  4 would probably also be intermediate.  That is the rate at which cells are dividing.  The only thing not noted is if the deep margin is clear.  Since it is noted the peripheral margins are not clear, I'm assuming the deep is clear or it would have been noted.

At this point, there is nothing to research and nothing to do except wait.  You'll have plenty of time to research later when you know the results of your SNB.  Until then, it is pointless.  One way you basically move on and the other you may consider treatments or trials.  But going there ahead of time is not a productive way to spend time.  You have a new baby and it's the holidays!  Ignore the rest until you have to deal with it.  Googling is not your friend at this point.

I think the surgical onc is wrong, you are stage 1b at the moment.  With no ulceration, stage 1b goes up to 2mm.  T2aN0M0 is stage 1b.

https://www.melanoma.org/understand-melanoma/diagnosing-melanoma/stages-of-diagnosis

The pieces in your report that relate to staging(prognostic indicators) are depth, ulceration and mitosis.  Your depth is considered intermediate (1-4mm).  Ulceration is absent  – good.  Mitosis is 4.  Preferably it would be 0.  4 would probably also be intermediate.  That is the rate at which cells are dividing.  The only thing not noted is if the deep margin is clear.  Since it is noted the peripheral margins are not clear, I'm assuming the deep is clear or it would have been noted.

At this point, there is nothing to research and nothing to do except wait.  You'll have plenty of time to research later when you know the results of your SNB.  Until then, it is pointless.  One way you basically move on and the other you may consider treatments or trials.  But going there ahead of time is not a productive way to spend time.  You have a new baby and it's the holidays!  Ignore the rest until you have to deal with it.  Googling is not your friend at this point.

I agree with Janner.  I was recently diagnosed with stage III metastatic melanoma (eve of Thanksgiving) and am currenly in a wait-and-see pattern as results of different tests have not come in yet.

Love life and love that baby!  This forum is great for encouragement and I urge you, if you need to be on the internet, concerned about your diagnosis, spend your time here.  I, too, spent quite a bit of time googling, but all that did was make me crazy.  We are going to beat this!

I agree with Janner.  I was recently diagnosed with stage III metastatic melanoma (eve of Thanksgiving) and am currenly in a wait-and-see pattern as results of different tests have not come in yet.

Love life and love that baby!  This forum is great for encouragement and I urge you, if you need to be on the internet, concerned about your diagnosis, spend your time here.  I, too, spent quite a bit of time googling, but all that did was make me crazy.  We are going to beat this!

I agree with Janner.  I was recently diagnosed with stage III metastatic melanoma (eve of Thanksgiving) and am currenly in a wait-and-see pattern as results of different tests have not come in yet.

Love life and love that baby!  This forum is great for encouragement and I urge you, if you need to be on the internet, concerned about your diagnosis, spend your time here.  I, too, spent quite a bit of time googling, but all that did was make me crazy.  We are going to beat this!

Hi

I won't try to analyse your path report as others here are much better at that than me, but I wanted to speak about anxiety.  I think what you are experiencing is pretty normal for a parent – I know the first thing I thought of when diagnosed was my young kids… it was the hardest thing, my mind running away on me, wondering if I'd be around for them, and even just in the short term keeping them away from excision or WLE sites etc. I think there is just an awful phase of anxiety and you are in it, especially as you are still waiting on your SLNB and the results from that. I wish I had good advice around this but I really don't – I had the same. The good news is that time is a great healer and as the weeks go by you will be in a much better place mentally and physically. This board helps – though some would say if you get the all clear then just go live life, don't hang around reading about others stories. Keeping busy/focusing on business-as-usual with your life is also important. I personally became more prayerful and explored my faith more – that's been a gift and in that way melanoma has been a blessing in disguise. Some calls to a cancer psychologist can also help –  that's often a free service, and I'm sure you can find similar – they will give you tools to cope with anxiety. All the best and it goes without saying I will be praying for you.

Hi

I won't try to analyse your path report as others here are much better at that than me, but I wanted to speak about anxiety.  I think what you are experiencing is pretty normal for a parent – I know the first thing I thought of when diagnosed was my young kids… it was the hardest thing, my mind running away on me, wondering if I'd be around for them, and even just in the short term keeping them away from excision or WLE sites etc. I think there is just an awful phase of anxiety and you are in it, especially as you are still waiting on your SLNB and the results from that. I wish I had good advice around this but I really don't – I had the same. The good news is that time is a great healer and as the weeks go by you will be in a much better place mentally and physically. This board helps – though some would say if you get the all clear then just go live life, don't hang around reading about others stories. Keeping busy/focusing on business-as-usual with your life is also important. I personally became more prayerful and explored my faith more – that's been a gift and in that way melanoma has been a blessing in disguise. Some calls to a cancer psychologist can also help –  that's often a free service, and I'm sure you can find similar – they will give you tools to cope with anxiety. All the best and it goes without saying I will be praying for you.

Hi

I won't try to analyse your path report as others here are much better at that than me, but I wanted to speak about anxiety.  I think what you are experiencing is pretty normal for a parent – I know the first thing I thought of when diagnosed was my young kids… it was the hardest thing, my mind running away on me, wondering if I'd be around for them, and even just in the short term keeping them away from excision or WLE sites etc. I think there is just an awful phase of anxiety and you are in it, especially as you are still waiting on your SLNB and the results from that. I wish I had good advice around this but I really don't – I had the same. The good news is that time is a great healer and as the weeks go by you will be in a much better place mentally and physically. This board helps – though some would say if you get the all clear then just go live life, don't hang around reading about others stories. Keeping busy/focusing on business-as-usual with your life is also important. I personally became more prayerful and explored my faith more – that's been a gift and in that way melanoma has been a blessing in disguise. Some calls to a cancer psychologist can also help –  that's often a free service, and I'm sure you can find similar – they will give you tools to cope with anxiety. All the best and it goes without saying I will be praying for you.