Thank you for the honest response! They gave my mom the option of doing the SLNB, but she chose not to do it because they told her they were "very opitimistic" that the melanoma didn't go much deeper than the .66 and her mitotic rate was low. Even during the procedure last week, the doctor was telling her how clean it looked, how he didn't see an indication of deep invaders, how he was even more optimistic now than he was before they started and how she made the right choice by not doing the SLNB.
and now here we are, and they want to take her lymph nodes. She's understandably upset and feels her doctor misled her (and I can't say I blame her!) so i have a lot of questions when we go in on Thursday.
