CancerCompass message board discussion started by Christyn on 12/3/2006 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,8099,0.htm Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ I was writing to find out if anybody has any answers for me. My husband just found out that he has melanoma. I had watched a mole grow on his back and it took me about 2 years to force him to get it checked out. He is going in on friday for them to remove lymph nodes to test them......and then we wont find out for another week if it has actually spread to them. I guess I just need some reassurance that everything will be ok. I dont know what I will do if they say it has. He's only 27...I'm only 22 and we have a 1 year old daughter. Christyn Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT no need to worry just yet. If the LN are negative then you got it all, if some are positive then its a little tougher road and if he has mets then its tougher still. Let us know what they find. Oncrx Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT This September I had a mole removed from my arm and it turned out to be Melanoma. I am only 31 years and of course FREAKED OUT!!!! I was a stage 1B Melanoma. I had a surgery where they removed a wider margin of tissue around where the melanoma mole was plus also had the Sentinal Node Biopsy. The SNL kind of sucked but I'm glad that I did it. What they do is inject some radioactive fluid into your body and watch/map which lympnode the Melanoma could have drained into. This took over 2.5 hours for me because the fluid was moving SO SLOW. It sucked because there are these huge cameras really close to your body and all I could do was lay there- not fun. If I ever have to do that again- I'm going to make sure I bring someone with me into the room- so at least I have someone to talk to. Once they locate the lymphnode that the Melanoma may drained into they marked it on your body. So then I went into surgery where they removed the tissue around the Melanoma and also removed the marked Lymphnode. I woke up and my mom drove me home. I was sore for a couple days but really felt ok. My test results showed that there was no evidence of any Melanoma cells in the surrounding tissue nor was it in my lymphnode. YAHOO!!!! Now it's been a month later and yesterday I had my first appointment with an Oncologist. My surgeon recommended I see an Oncologist just to follow up. I talked with him and he wants me to have a PET SCAN to make sure that the Melanoma hasn't spread to any organs in my body. SCARY!!! I started crying like a baby but he told he's 85% sure that he won't find anything and that I have an excellent chance that the Melanoma was cured with surgery. If you want to email me personally you can reach me at --- Message edited by CancerCompass staff: for personal protection, email address removed. Please review CancerCompass Member Guidelines at http://www.cancercompass.com/common/guidelines.html ---- Cooper1 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT I've been helping mom through Melanoma for years. Keep up the watching .. and get the test results before you worry. There are lots of options and obviously are finding this early. Let us know the test results.hoping for the best for you ! Lindymo Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT