Nemesis

I would like to hear more opinions.

Ask for immunotherapy.

About 15% chances of node involvement.

Congratulations! I take it the doctors advised you to wait for 3 years after the treatment before trying for a baby?

Very happy for you Ashley! Skol from Minnesota!

Hi Happy_girl!

 

I am sorry you had to deal with this stpid melanoma. I was diagnosed 6 months after my son was born with a T1b stage. I was lucky we caught it in time, although technically I got no type of scans, so who knows? SNLB came back negative.

 

I asked my dermatologist and she said there is no reason to wait. I read and read, and cannot figure anything definite. Were my hormones the final push to the melanoma appearing, or my surpressed imune state? What will happen if I get pregnant? Is it going to come back as a new primary, or would the tiny melanoma cells I might still have floating in my body activate and send me straight o stage 2?

 

Anyway, because I am 35 I have decided to try for a second child in late summer of 2018. That would put me a bit over 1.5 years of waiting.

 

Good luck, and please update with any new information you might get from your doctors about pregnancy and melanoma.

I am not the one to be easily offended, but I really don’t need to be reminded how deadly melanoma is. I find it very cruel.

Of course it popped up while I was writing this message.

I would. Mine was T1b as well and asked for one and got it.

They told me the chances of a node coming back positive are the Breslow depth  times 10. So, 20% for you. There is also this online calculator:

 

http://www.lifemath.net/cancer/melanoma/outcome/index.php

I take it to mean the oposite. 50% of the patients have not survived to 2 years.

I take it to mean the oposite. 50% of the patients have not survive to 2 years.

Awesome. My tumor was 1b, and I am stage 1A now after the new guidelines. Mine was found when my son was 5 months old, and I will wait for two years before trying again. That time will be up in nov, so I am pretty excited!