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      • June 8, 2018 at 5:34 pm
      MaggieT
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        Thank you again for your reply 🙂 I guess for now I will continue to be on top of things and try not to think about it all the time…would be a waste of good energy as they say. Thank you too for sharing part of your story. You seem to be very knowledgeable in all of this…would it be alright if I asked your opinion on something else? Maybe your derm has said something or you read something informative about it…

        I will discuss with my derm for his reasoning as well, but im curious about pigment regrowth in biopsies that came back mildly atypical. My derm thinks it is ok to leave pigment regrowth alone in those ones as long as they don't look "odd" or grow back outside of the scar. Everything I read online seems to be on the side of removing any pigment regrowth, even if was only mildly atypical. We do remove everything in my moderates once the biopsy results come back so I don't have to worry about pigment regrowth in those, but I have three milds with a little bit of pigment regrowth.

        • June 8, 2018 at 6:42 am
        MaggieT
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          Thank you for your reply. My derm biopsies anything that he doesn't like the look of or if I've pointed out one that has changed. I guess where my biggest concern really lies it not necessarily one of my moles changing to melanoma (as you've pointed out most come from a new mole), but actually developing a melanoma one day as a new mole because I've had a handful of moderately atypical moles. I know I'm at higher risk simply because I have quite a bit of moles and have atypical ones too. Is the risk really that much higher? Will melanoma always be an ugly duckling? Because as I mentioned, a bunch of my atypical moles looked "normal/ok" while "funky" ones have come back as a common mole :/

          • June 8, 2018 at 6:33 am
          MaggieT
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            Thank you for your reply and I wish you all the best as well 🙂

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