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      • January 23, 2019 at 1:31 pm
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        I've been researching a lot over the internet about this topic since I was concerned about a mole I found on my body. I found a study in which it was stated that roughly 80% of moles which are noticed to be changing by a person came back as benign by pathology report. I also read that sinificant portion of dysplastic moles change over the years in a benign pattern. So even if a mole changes there is still much higher possibility that it's benign rather than malignant. Concerning would be if a mole is changing in an assymetrical pattern, increasing the color variation, etc. 
        Recently I had a suspucious mole removed which had all of the ABCD signs of melanoma and the pathology report came back as benign compound nevus with no signs of atypia.. so it wasn't even an atypical mole which means that I worried too much over a completely normal thing.

         

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