4th Melanoma found after skin check
Hi everyone, so pre my bc journey I have had 3 melanoma. I had my first melanoma at 38, 2nd one at 39 and 3rd at 49. These were caught reasonably early so no further treatment but pretty big scars. I ...
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Sorry to hear another little journey ahead of you... but so good that you are onto it and keeping up those skin checks... any form of cancer is so bloomin shit sucky.. I really hope the wait for your next excision isn't too stressful for you, and that they get it all in the next hit.
Hubby and I stopped counting my skin cancer treatments at 180, got boring after that, lol... then got the bc diagnosis just for something a bit different, did treatment , on tamoxifen and have had 3 melanomas since... think someone "upstairs" is screwing with me 🤪..but where I'm going with this is.. has your oncologist/dr suggested a PET scan... mines doing one literally after each melanoma... not only do I have enough scars on my body from all the surgeries that you could literally play join the dots, but I think I am glowing green from all the scans... wondering if oncologist is being over cautious (if there could be such a thing)... but interested to know where others stand in similar situations and if so many PETS are that necessary...
Take care, and hope your feeling a bit better about things now. 🤗
Hubby and I stopped counting my skin cancer treatments at 180, got boring after that, lol... then got the bc diagnosis just for something a bit different, did treatment , on tamoxifen and have had 3 melanomas since... think someone "upstairs" is screwing with me 🤪..but where I'm going with this is.. has your oncologist/dr suggested a PET scan... mines doing one literally after each melanoma... not only do I have enough scars on my body from all the surgeries that you could literally play join the dots, but I think I am glowing green from all the scans... wondering if oncologist is being over cautious (if there could be such a thing)... but interested to know where others stand in similar situations and if so many PETS are that necessary...
Take care, and hope your feeling a bit better about things now. 🤗