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- May 18, 2012 at 1:59 am
Good Evening – new poster (unfortunately) wanting to get some hopefully 1st or 2nd hand experience with desmoplastic melanoma.
My father was diagnosed last Friday, had the WLE and SLNB on Wednesday and everything is going along smoothly — including the lymph nodes visibly not looking any different. We will get the official path report back next week so needless to say, we are praying it's not a combined form of DM, instead of pure.
The tumor was 2.7mm thickness, 2cm WLE was done, and SLNB with visibly clear sentinal node removed.
Good Evening – new poster (unfortunately) wanting to get some hopefully 1st or 2nd hand experience with desmoplastic melanoma.
My father was diagnosed last Friday, had the WLE and SLNB on Wednesday and everything is going along smoothly — including the lymph nodes visibly not looking any different. We will get the official path report back next week so needless to say, we are praying it's not a combined form of DM, instead of pure.
The tumor was 2.7mm thickness, 2cm WLE was done, and SLNB with visibly clear sentinal node removed.
My question is for anyone who has had experience with this sub-type. I already know quite a bit about it by hours of research and findings but I just haven't found any credible personal info on any forums — both here and melanomaintl.org — it's really frustrating. My father has really good docs treating him, including one of the best oncologists around but I get a feeling that this type is not something they have dealt with before which is unsettling; not to mention my father trusts them completely. We have resources in the Houston area, meaning MD Anderson is somewhere we could go but he is so worried about the convenience factor (family is in Northeast Texas) of traveling, etc — it's very frustrating.
Anyways, back on point…I'm reaching out to this larger forum to see if anybody has had experience with this. The only things I've read on here are other questions from folks wondering the same thing as me.
Thank You All in advance.
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- May 18, 2012 at 2:06 am
SORRY EVERYONE!!! DIDN'T READ THAT THIS IS THE OCULAR MELANOMA FORUM. SORRY AGAIN!
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- May 18, 2012 at 2:06 am
SORRY EVERYONE!!! DIDN'T READ THAT THIS IS THE OCULAR MELANOMA FORUM. SORRY AGAIN!
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- May 18, 2012 at 2:06 am
SORRY EVERYONE!!! DIDN'T READ THAT THIS IS THE OCULAR MELANOMA FORUM. SORRY AGAIN!
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