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    • September 22, 2017 at 11:42 am
    YVAN
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      My PATHO report mentions a stage1A melanoma 0,3mm after the punch biopsy (all the rest is good: no ulceration, no regression, mitotic rate=0, noxyz, etc….  But it mentions also atypical melanocytes at the margins…. I thus go for a wide excision…But my questions are:

      (1) Are atypical melanocytes at the margins = melanoma…Are these already tumor or only susceptible to become melanoma tumor (??)… My doctor's answer is not clear…..

      (2) I bleeded a lot after puch biopsy…if atypical myelanocytes at the margins were indeed already cancer, could they have spread in the blood (??)

      YVAN, an anxious patient…

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        • September 22, 2017 at 11:57 am
        YVAN
        Participant

          Sorry…Forgot to mention a detail: the atypical melanocytes are intraepidermal only.

            • September 24, 2017 at 11:07 am
            Staywell
            Participant

              Hi Yvan , I'm the same situation , but I had a removal of the area .  If you have a place to pm I'll try to explain what I learned .

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