doublejen

Thanks everyone for your wisdom. We are getting a copy of the path report and will go from there. Husband is not so interested in a second opinion, not as worried as I am. But we have a contact at NIH who looked at his original path report from his mole, so hopefully we can get him to look at this one, too.

Jen

Thanks everyone for your wisdom. We are getting a copy of the path report and will go from there. Husband is not so interested in a second opinion, not as worried as I am. But we have a contact at NIH who looked at his original path report from his mole, so hopefully we can get him to look at this one, too.

Jen

Thanks everyone for your wisdom. We are getting a copy of the path report and will go from there. Husband is not so interested in a second opinion, not as worried as I am. But we have a contact at NIH who looked at his original path report from his mole, so hopefully we can get him to look at this one, too.

Jen

This is my concern. I don't understand how ANY melanoma cells in a lymph node mean he can still be classified as Stage 1, but that's what the doctor said – no additional treatment warranted, based on some study that showed if there are fewer than 20 cancer cells in a lymph node, survival rates are the same as for Stage 1.

This is my concern. I don't understand how ANY melanoma cells in a lymph node mean he can still be classified as Stage 1, but that's what the doctor said – no additional treatment warranted, based on some study that showed if there are fewer than 20 cancer cells in a lymph node, survival rates are the same as for Stage 1.

This is my concern. I don't understand how ANY melanoma cells in a lymph node mean he can still be classified as Stage 1, but that's what the doctor said – no additional treatment warranted, based on some study that showed if there are fewer than 20 cancer cells in a lymph node, survival rates are the same as for Stage 1.