Melanoma Treatment: A Patient Video Guide - Early Stage Melanoma (Part 1 of 4) 

Years ago, in my early sixties, I saw a strange looking mole on my right forearm. I casually asked my regular doctor what he thought about it. He took one look and his eyes got big. He sent me to a dermatologist. The dermatologist cut the mole out and sent it to a lab. Then I got a call to tell me it IS melanoma and surgery will be necessary. While being prepped for surgery, the doctor could tell that I was not appropriately concerned about the melanoma. He got real serious, looked me in the eye and said, "sir, this could kill you". At that time, I was amazingly ignorant about melanoma. They ended up removing a lot of skin - about 2 inches in diameter and a 1/4 inch deep. They also took a biopsy of the lymph node in my arm pit. Thankfully, that came back benign (negative). They also took some skin from my thigh and grafted it onto the surgery site. My forearm now looks like something took a big bite out of it. Videos like this one do a great job of explaining the seriousness of melanoma.

best I've seen very good thank you!

Very helpful. Thanks.

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I would say. When a surgeon or doctor removes the initial melanoma skin lesion If they don't take enough margin. Then after pathology results decide they need to take a wider margin. It's possible that melanoma cancer cells could enter the bloodstream.

My parents and I have like a band on the nail, I have it slightly but my parents boh have it slightly darker and on more nails. I don't know what to do, should I be concerened?

What is PET scan? What is Non-Brisk?

Is superficial melanoma safe ?

I came here because I was just diagnosed with 0 stage melonma skin cancer it's early stage but I'm still scared

please demostrate what 1 cm is,,or 2 cm,,,,just saying it means nothing.

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