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- November 19, 2015 at 11:58 pm
Hi,
I am just newly diagnosed with malignant's superficial spreading melanoma on the top of my left foot. My dermatologist has sent me straight to a surgical oncologist at a cancer hospital. I see him on Tuesday.
Little background it was a "mole" that came up on my foot within the last 10 months. Pathology report says its level II, Breslow .35mm with both radical and Vertical growth phase. Mitotic <1.
I can't get a good understanding of the report because everything on the internet is for places other than the foot. Even when I registered on here they did not even have an option for me to say it was on the foot. It listed every other body part.
Im pretty sure that with the pathology report it would not be all that bad if it was somewhere else on my body right? Just how bad is it with it being on my foot?
thanks for any information positive or negative
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- November 20, 2015 at 12:55 am
Hi! My melanoma was on the top of my right foot. 2.95mm – nodular melanoma. I am not sure at what point exactly they do sentinel node biopsies but more than likely they will want to do a wide excision on your foot. It's not too bad but hopefully that is all you will have to do. Feel free to email me if you have any questions about the surgery. Mkirkland11@yahoo.com best wishes!
Misty
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- November 20, 2015 at 12:55 am
Hi! My melanoma was on the top of my right foot. 2.95mm – nodular melanoma. I am not sure at what point exactly they do sentinel node biopsies but more than likely they will want to do a wide excision on your foot. It's not too bad but hopefully that is all you will have to do. Feel free to email me if you have any questions about the surgery. Mkirkland11@yahoo.com best wishes!
Misty
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- November 20, 2015 at 12:55 am
Hi! My melanoma was on the top of my right foot. 2.95mm – nodular melanoma. I am not sure at what point exactly they do sentinel node biopsies but more than likely they will want to do a wide excision on your foot. It's not too bad but hopefully that is all you will have to do. Feel free to email me if you have any questions about the surgery. Mkirkland11@yahoo.com best wishes!
Misty
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- November 20, 2015 at 1:01 am
Hi,
I was diagnosed with stage 1b on my left foot in 2010. I had a SNB that came back negative. They performed a very wide excision on my left foot instead of a graft as I was told it was difficult to do it on a foot and the risk of infection is higher on it. I couldn't walk for a week and had to keep my foot high as much as possible for a month. They removed the las stitich one month after the surgery. I don't think it that the fact it is on a foot is worst that somewhere else, your doctor wants just to be sure that he doesn't start spreading somewhere else.
Best,
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- November 20, 2015 at 1:01 am
Hi,
I was diagnosed with stage 1b on my left foot in 2010. I had a SNB that came back negative. They performed a very wide excision on my left foot instead of a graft as I was told it was difficult to do it on a foot and the risk of infection is higher on it. I couldn't walk for a week and had to keep my foot high as much as possible for a month. They removed the las stitich one month after the surgery. I don't think it that the fact it is on a foot is worst that somewhere else, your doctor wants just to be sure that he doesn't start spreading somewhere else.
Best,
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- November 20, 2015 at 1:01 am
Hi,
I was diagnosed with stage 1b on my left foot in 2010. I had a SNB that came back negative. They performed a very wide excision on my left foot instead of a graft as I was told it was difficult to do it on a foot and the risk of infection is higher on it. I couldn't walk for a week and had to keep my foot high as much as possible for a month. They removed the las stitich one month after the surgery. I don't think it that the fact it is on a foot is worst that somewhere else, your doctor wants just to be sure that he doesn't start spreading somewhere else.
Best,
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- November 20, 2015 at 3:10 am
Honestly, extremities have a better prognosis than on the trunk. Acral melanoma has a worse prognosis and it is often found on the soles of feet and that might be giving you a false sense of seriousness. But you have superficial spreading, not Acral. You have a low risk stage 1a lesion and just require the wide excision. Pain in the butt but it could certainly be much worse! You caught this one early!
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- November 20, 2015 at 3:10 am
Honestly, extremities have a better prognosis than on the trunk. Acral melanoma has a worse prognosis and it is often found on the soles of feet and that might be giving you a false sense of seriousness. But you have superficial spreading, not Acral. You have a low risk stage 1a lesion and just require the wide excision. Pain in the butt but it could certainly be much worse! You caught this one early!
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- November 20, 2015 at 3:10 am
Honestly, extremities have a better prognosis than on the trunk. Acral melanoma has a worse prognosis and it is often found on the soles of feet and that might be giving you a false sense of seriousness. But you have superficial spreading, not Acral. You have a low risk stage 1a lesion and just require the wide excision. Pain in the butt but it could certainly be much worse! You caught this one early!
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- November 22, 2015 at 5:52 pm
Hi,
I had a melanoma on my left foot by my little toe. The doctor was able to take the skin without doing a skin graft. My foot was deformed for quite a while because he stretched the skin so tight. It eventually went back to normal. I had to keep my foot elevated for quite a long time, I don't remember for sure how long. I do remember doing a very good job of not tearing out the stitches initially but went back to work too soon and split the scar tissue open and prolonged the healing. Stitches don't hold well in the very thin skin of the foot.
I remember that my surgeon was very concerned about the spot on my foot because of how thin the skin is. He told me to go home and get my affairs in order. This was from a .4mm melanoma. If I remember correctly I was at stage 1b. The SLB came back clean.
Even though I had an MRI on my brain and a ct chest scan that came back clean,(this was about five years ago) the melanoma had already spread to my left lung. I found out by accident earlier this year with an unrelated ct scan.
It seems to me that a ct scan a few years out could be prudent. I am not sure what finding this one on my lung sooner would mean for me now but it seems earlier is better.
I hope that all goes well for you.
T.
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- November 22, 2015 at 5:52 pm
Hi,
I had a melanoma on my left foot by my little toe. The doctor was able to take the skin without doing a skin graft. My foot was deformed for quite a while because he stretched the skin so tight. It eventually went back to normal. I had to keep my foot elevated for quite a long time, I don't remember for sure how long. I do remember doing a very good job of not tearing out the stitches initially but went back to work too soon and split the scar tissue open and prolonged the healing. Stitches don't hold well in the very thin skin of the foot.
I remember that my surgeon was very concerned about the spot on my foot because of how thin the skin is. He told me to go home and get my affairs in order. This was from a .4mm melanoma. If I remember correctly I was at stage 1b. The SLB came back clean.
Even though I had an MRI on my brain and a ct chest scan that came back clean,(this was about five years ago) the melanoma had already spread to my left lung. I found out by accident earlier this year with an unrelated ct scan.
It seems to me that a ct scan a few years out could be prudent. I am not sure what finding this one on my lung sooner would mean for me now but it seems earlier is better.
I hope that all goes well for you.
T.
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- November 22, 2015 at 5:52 pm
Hi,
I had a melanoma on my left foot by my little toe. The doctor was able to take the skin without doing a skin graft. My foot was deformed for quite a while because he stretched the skin so tight. It eventually went back to normal. I had to keep my foot elevated for quite a long time, I don't remember for sure how long. I do remember doing a very good job of not tearing out the stitches initially but went back to work too soon and split the scar tissue open and prolonged the healing. Stitches don't hold well in the very thin skin of the foot.
I remember that my surgeon was very concerned about the spot on my foot because of how thin the skin is. He told me to go home and get my affairs in order. This was from a .4mm melanoma. If I remember correctly I was at stage 1b. The SLB came back clean.
Even though I had an MRI on my brain and a ct chest scan that came back clean,(this was about five years ago) the melanoma had already spread to my left lung. I found out by accident earlier this year with an unrelated ct scan.
It seems to me that a ct scan a few years out could be prudent. I am not sure what finding this one on my lung sooner would mean for me now but it seems earlier is better.
I hope that all goes well for you.
T.
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