JulietJ

Thank you all so much, Jerry, Libby, Don, Anonymous and Janner. I greatly appreciate your responses, and I'll talk with my Dad about what I've learned on this site.

It sounds like it might indeed be the Maligna Lentigo Melanoma variety – it was not a very large lesion, but it was probably more like a sunspot in appearance than a typical mole, so the description fits, and it sound like that might help explain why they did not get all of the cells the first time.  He was feeling pretty down about that and seemed to think that his "cancer is spreading."

I'll talk with Dad about the Maligna Lentigo, so he can ask his doctor. It sounds as though that if it spreads outward on the skin, it's still in situ, and they can keep after it. We just don't want it growing downwards. And we'll keep hoping that the biopsy taken from the other side of his face on Friday is not cancerous. I would also like to get a copy of the pathology report so I can see how it measured in depth, mitosis and the other measures. 

Kind regards to all of you – I hope you are doing well.

Julie

Thank you all so much, Jerry, Libby, Don, Anonymous and Janner. I greatly appreciate your responses, and I'll talk with my Dad about what I've learned on this site.

It sounds like it might indeed be the Maligna Lentigo Melanoma variety – it was not a very large lesion, but it was probably more like a sunspot in appearance than a typical mole, so the description fits, and it sound like that might help explain why they did not get all of the cells the first time.  He was feeling pretty down about that and seemed to think that his "cancer is spreading."

I'll talk with Dad about the Maligna Lentigo, so he can ask his doctor. It sounds as though that if it spreads outward on the skin, it's still in situ, and they can keep after it. We just don't want it growing downwards. And we'll keep hoping that the biopsy taken from the other side of his face on Friday is not cancerous. I would also like to get a copy of the pathology report so I can see how it measured in depth, mitosis and the other measures. 

Kind regards to all of you – I hope you are doing well.

Julie

Thank you all so much, Jerry, Libby, Don, Anonymous and Janner. I greatly appreciate your responses, and I'll talk with my Dad about what I've learned on this site.

It sounds like it might indeed be the Maligna Lentigo Melanoma variety – it was not a very large lesion, but it was probably more like a sunspot in appearance than a typical mole, so the description fits, and it sound like that might help explain why they did not get all of the cells the first time.  He was feeling pretty down about that and seemed to think that his "cancer is spreading."

I'll talk with Dad about the Maligna Lentigo, so he can ask his doctor. It sounds as though that if it spreads outward on the skin, it's still in situ, and they can keep after it. We just don't want it growing downwards. And we'll keep hoping that the biopsy taken from the other side of his face on Friday is not cancerous. I would also like to get a copy of the pathology report so I can see how it measured in depth, mitosis and the other measures. 

Kind regards to all of you – I hope you are doing well.

Julie