Supportivefiance

Just an update to the original post. Apparently if we had been at any other lab the pathologist would have missed the diagnosis in the SLN. He called the surgeon to tell her that he found 4 isolated cells of melanoma. All things considered this was as good as we could have hoped for. After meeting with the general surgeon and on of the top Melanoma specialists in the nation we decided to undergo the CLND. Now we are waiting on path results from those nodes. She meets with the Melanoma specialist again on the 27th. Thank you all for all of the support. I hope you all are doing well! 

Just an update to the original post. Apparently if we had been at any other lab the pathologist would have missed the diagnosis in the SLN. He called the surgeon to tell her that he found 4 isolated cells of melanoma. All things considered this was as good as we could have hoped for. After meeting with the general surgeon and on of the top Melanoma specialists in the nation we decided to undergo the CLND. Now we are waiting on path results from those nodes. She meets with the Melanoma specialist again on the 27th. Thank you all for all of the support. I hope you all are doing well! 

Just an update to the original post. Apparently if we had been at any other lab the pathologist would have missed the diagnosis in the SLN. He called the surgeon to tell her that he found 4 isolated cells of melanoma. All things considered this was as good as we could have hoped for. After meeting with the general surgeon and on of the top Melanoma specialists in the nation we decided to undergo the CLND. Now we are waiting on path results from those nodes. She meets with the Melanoma specialist again on the 27th. Thank you all for all of the support. I hope you all are doing well! 

Thanks Celeste, I've read many of your posts and its great to see you bringing so much support to this community. Just found out from her that the SLN path report stated that it was a 0.02 mm without extracapsular extension tumor. She goes to see the surgical onc again tomorrow. It seems that according to this study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16968875) she fits in a pretty good group and depending on the oncologist could stay at her Ib diagnosis. Does anyone know if they do Yervoy for IIIa without a CLND? 

Thanks Celeste, I've read many of your posts and its great to see you bringing so much support to this community. Just found out from her that the SLN path report stated that it was a 0.02 mm without extracapsular extension tumor. She goes to see the surgical onc again tomorrow. It seems that according to this study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16968875) she fits in a pretty good group and depending on the oncologist could stay at her Ib diagnosis. Does anyone know if they do Yervoy for IIIa without a CLND? 

Thanks Celeste, I've read many of your posts and its great to see you bringing so much support to this community. Just found out from her that the SLN path report stated that it was a 0.02 mm without extracapsular extension tumor. She goes to see the surgical onc again tomorrow. It seems that according to this study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16968875) she fits in a pretty good group and depending on the oncologist could stay at her Ib diagnosis. Does anyone know if they do Yervoy for IIIa without a CLND?