I had a mole on my leg biopsied 1.5 weeks ago. The path report came back as stage 1a, 0.44cm deep, no ulceration, mitotic rate of 0.
A few days ago I met with the surgeon who will be removing the mole. He said that he won’t know the exact stage until the entire mole is removed which is standard as far as I can tell.
Any chance anyone out there knows how often these measurements change drastically? Should I put any stock in the initial results?
You can make no assumptions from the biopsy because, as I recall, your deep margin was not clear. It was a very shallow shave biopsy. I don't think you should be worrying unnecessarily, but none of us can give you any help on this. Most times, biopsies remove enough depth for initial staging even if they don't always get all the width needed. But in your case, that didn't happen. So you have to wait until the WLE to know if it was about that depth or deeper. Hang in there.
You can make no assumptions from the biopsy because, as I recall, your deep margin was not clear. It was a very shallow shave biopsy. I don't think you should be worrying unnecessarily, but none of us can give you any help on this. Most times, biopsies remove enough depth for initial staging even if they don't always get all the width needed. But in your case, that didn't happen. So you have to wait until the WLE to know if it was about that depth or deeper. Hang in there.
You can make no assumptions from the biopsy because, as I recall, your deep margin was not clear. It was a very shallow shave biopsy. I don't think you should be worrying unnecessarily, but none of us can give you any help on this. Most times, biopsies remove enough depth for initial staging even if they don't always get all the width needed. But in your case, that didn't happen. So you have to wait until the WLE to know if it was about that depth or deeper. Hang in there.
So I might have confused the original poster for the other poster on this thread. If your original biopsy had clean deep margins, then the WLE would most likely be anti-climactic. If the deep margin wasn't clear, then my original reply is correct.
So I might have confused the original poster for the other poster on this thread. If your original biopsy had clean deep margins, then the WLE would most likely be anti-climactic. If the deep margin wasn't clear, then my original reply is correct.
So I might have confused the original poster for the other poster on this thread. If your original biopsy had clean deep margins, then the WLE would most likely be anti-climactic. If the deep margin wasn't clear, then my original reply is correct.
It had clean deep margins but my surgeon said that (since they didnt get the entire width of it) there could be a “lake” or area where the mole is deeper than what was biopsied.
Trying to stay positive. Unfortunately/fortunately the mole was found in the middle of an ivf cycle. We had to freeze all of our embryos and they don’t want us to try for a year. They areally worried the increased hormones my have exacerbated the melanoma. Since the biopsy it does seem a little swollen and is a little painful but I assume that’s relatively normal?
It had clean deep margins but my surgeon said that (since they didnt get the entire width of it) there could be a “lake” or area where the mole is deeper than what was biopsied.
Trying to stay positive. Unfortunately/fortunately the mole was found in the middle of an ivf cycle. We had to freeze all of our embryos and they don’t want us to try for a year. They areally worried the increased hormones my have exacerbated the melanoma. Since the biopsy it does seem a little swollen and is a little painful but I assume that’s relatively normal?
It had clean deep margins but my surgeon said that (since they didnt get the entire width of it) there could be a “lake” or area where the mole is deeper than what was biopsied.
Trying to stay positive. Unfortunately/fortunately the mole was found in the middle of an ivf cycle. We had to freeze all of our embryos and they don’t want us to try for a year. They areally worried the increased hormones my have exacerbated the melanoma. Since the biopsy it does seem a little swollen and is a little painful but I assume that’s relatively normal?
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