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chest xray

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- November 1, 2011 at 1:11 am
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heg50heg
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Can just having a chest exray done detect melanoma spread in the body. After completing the chest exray today the technician ask me if I had a cough lately and I said no. She then ask me where I had melanoma at and I informed her it was on my arm and that I had it removed. I ask her if the xray looked good and she said she did not have acess to previos exrays to compare them. Just her asking the question she did made me nervous and that is why I was wondering if melanoma spots show up on regular exrays. Will be nervous now untill I talk to my Dr. on wed. again.

Can just having a chest exray done detect melanoma spread in the body. After completing the chest exray today the technician ask me if I had a cough lately and I said no. She then ask me where I had melanoma at and I informed her it was on my arm and that I had it removed. I ask her if the xray looked good and she said she did not have acess to previos exrays to compare them. Just her asking the question she did made me nervous and that is why I was wondering if melanoma spots show up on regular exrays. Will be nervous now untill I talk to my Dr. on wed. again.

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- - November 1, 2011 at 2:22 am
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  LynnLuc
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  They first spotted mine by a chest x ray but they didn't know what it was…thats when they scheduled the MRI… then they said ti was either lymphoma or melanoma…they mentioned melanoma only because I had it on my neck years before. Not until the biopsy did they confirm it. They seen a dark mass that wasn't suppose to be there…Lynn
- - November 1, 2011 at 2:22 am
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  LynnLuc
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  They first spotted mine by a chest x ray but they didn't know what it was…thats when they scheduled the MRI… then they said ti was either lymphoma or melanoma…they mentioned melanoma only because I had it on my neck years before. Not until the biopsy did they confirm it. They seen a dark mass that wasn't suppose to be there…Lynn
- - November 1, 2011 at 2:22 am
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  LynnLuc
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  They first spotted mine by a chest x ray but they didn't know what it was…thats when they scheduled the MRI… then they said ti was either lymphoma or melanoma…they mentioned melanoma only because I had it on my neck years before. Not until the biopsy did they confirm it. They seen a dark mass that wasn't suppose to be there…Lynn

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