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Spitzoid melanoma

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    • June 28, 2018 at 3:43 pm
    Olygirl
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      My husband was diagnosed in March with melanoma, since then he’s had 3 surgery’s to remove it which was successful. At his last appointment with the the doctor he asked him to take a look at a very itchy growth on my wrist. The doctor decided to biopsy it. It has been 3 weeks with no results when my husband calls to find out why it was taking so long. They told him it has been sent to 2 other pathologist for review. We we’re concerned but continue with life. About 4 days later I get a call from the doctor asking for authorization to do a FISH test and explain what they found. He said it’s a Spitzoid they are tough to diagnose they pretty sure it’s a Spitzoid Melanoma but want concrete evidence. Does anyone have knowledge of this?
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        • July 8, 2018 at 1:27 am
        Paulajane
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          I had a thing on my hiney showed up one day   Looked like a bug bite got larger and developed a tan halo around it got it checked after a year. Was told it was nothing to worry about a year or so  later my husband warned me it started to grow larger then  maybe another year went by and my husband said that I should get it checked it looked funny. By this time it turned dark and the halo was no longer even but had started to spread like little fingers unevenly on two sides. I got it checked a pinch biopsy was done that day. The biopsy done by Fleming dermapathology came back metastatic melanoma no known primary. The size and ulceration made this a grave diagnosis. After all scans came back Ned the original dermapathologist decided he was mistaken-the original slides were sent to UCSF which took 6 wks for tests results in the mean time every doctor I saw basically thought I was going to die. It came back a malignancy of uncertain potential or an atypical spitzoid tumor. I was treated for Breslow depth 2.2 mm stage II melignant melanoma. I had a huge wle surgery called a flap graft and sentinel lymph nodes removed done at UW with the surgeon from their cancer clinic and am being followed ever 3 months for the first year by the melanoma clinic. The  nodes were clear. I’ve read about the misdiagnosis of spitzoid when it really melanoma and how bad that turns out. I’m glad I’m being followed closely. I hope things turned out well for you but stay vigilant.

          paula

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