Rebeccap82

36yo female otherwise healthy and active. I am a Healthcare Provider with Primary Care. Have one Daughter of a beautiful bright 4yo. Was dx with Superficial Spreading Melanoma at .85 Breslow depth. They did a sentinel lymph node biopsy due to my mitotic rate of 3. Lymphscintagraphy demostrated three sentinel lymph nodes to remove; one in my tight inguinal and two from my left axilla. I just found put my right inguinal node came back positive and am supposed to meet with oncologist tommorow. Im wanted to see if there some people out there that 1. Have gone the route of Complete Itmohnode disectiom of the inguinal region or 2. Have decided to go with observation with routine ultrasound and observatiom; because I am looking at the literature and it seems a bit controversial in regards to decide to do lymph node disection on thin melanomas? There is a lot of morbitity wirh lymph node disection especially with the lower extremities and I am extremley active and snowboard every weekend (this is my therapy). Or if there is anyone who has tried the anastomses with the dissection? Or someone my age who had a succesful outcome after inguinal lymph node dissection? This is so stressful and the waiting game to decide what the treatment plan will be is torture.