malignant blue nevi/melanoma/child

So sorry to hear about your daughter.  You didn't say how deep the tumor was, I am hoping not very deep.

I looked up several articles and there seemed to be a difference of opinion by the scientific community.  Some say if  it walks like a duck and talks like a duck  it must be a duck,  Others say ah but its feathers are unlike anything else so it's something different.  The best and most current I found is in the link below.  Please don't let the stats scare you.  When you are new to this cancer thing, stats will drive you crazy.  All the folks in this study were older and had quite large tumors.  But all articles I read were in concurrence, whatever you want to call it, you treat it like Mel. 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cncr.24319/full

Good Luck,

Mary

Stage 3

So sorry to hear about your daughter.  You didn't say how deep the tumor was, I am hoping not very deep.

I looked up several articles and there seemed to be a difference of opinion by the scientific community.  Some say if  it walks like a duck and talks like a duck  it must be a duck,  Others say ah but its feathers are unlike anything else so it's something different.  The best and most current I found is in the link below.  Please don't let the stats scare you.  When you are new to this cancer thing, stats will drive you crazy.  All the folks in this study were older and had quite large tumors.  But all articles I read were in concurrence, whatever you want to call it, you treat it like Mel. 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cncr.24319/full

Good Luck,

Mary

Stage 3

Another thing about statistics: Malignant blue nevi are very rare, so any statistics about them are much less reliable than statistics about the more common melanoma types.

Malignant blue nevi are even rarer in children. So there are probably no reliable statistics at all.

Here is a report a young girl with lymph node metastases who is free of disease 8 years later: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15861528

Another thing about statistics: Malignant blue nevi are very rare, so any statistics about them are much less reliable than statistics about the more common melanoma types.

Malignant blue nevi are even rarer in children. So there are probably no reliable statistics at all.

Here is a report a young girl with lymph node metastases who is free of disease 8 years later: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15861528

On my husband's path report post surgery, it states his primary tumor was melanoma arising from blue nevus.  They took a long time over it to be sure that it was, indeed, melanoma.  My understanding is that it is rare for a blue nevus to become melanoma, but it happens.  He had the lump for 13 years after a needle biopsy came back as a simple lipoma, or fatty tumor, so it had been there a long time.  When it 'changed' or became melanoma, we'll never know.

On my husband's path report post surgery, it states his primary tumor was melanoma arising from blue nevus.  They took a long time over it to be sure that it was, indeed, melanoma.  My understanding is that it is rare for a blue nevus to become melanoma, but it happens.  He had the lump for 13 years after a needle biopsy came back as a simple lipoma, or fatty tumor, so it had been there a long time.  When it 'changed' or became melanoma, we'll never know.