Melanoma Research Foundation | accaldwell | Activity https://forum.melanoma.org/user/accaldwell/activity/ Activity feed for accaldwell. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:53:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 7d0d5f0f18dc0beac275624880c09143 accaldwell replied to the topic True local scar recurrence in the forum General Melanoma Community https://forum.melanoma.org/forums/topic/true-local-scar-recurrence/#post-276577 Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:32:23 -0400 Thank you! I just had my second wide excision of the entire scar yesterday, along with three lymph nodes. Hoping everything comes back clear. My doctor won’t say that it was an incomplete removal. He said it could have been an incomplete removal, a completely new melanoma, or micro cells that were left behind that couldn’t have been detected…Read more

]]> 66f6c22e090ab71c5e29b932751e9155 accaldwell replied to the topic True local scar recurrence in the forum General Melanoma Community https://forum.melanoma.org/forums/topic/true-local-scar-recurrence/#post-276494 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 21:10:33 -0400 I am so sorry to hear that you progressed. That is always so worrying to hear. I hope that you are doing well and your treatment is successful.

]]> 2492ab2b00a3738cfd0947e535d98263 accaldwell replied to the topic Specialist or regular derm for WLE? in the forum Cutaneous Melanoma Community https://forum.melanoma.org/forums/topic/specialist-or-regular-derm-for-wle/#post-276487 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:08:57 -0400 Go to a specialist! I had my wle 6 months ago for a stage 1a, very low risk lesion… and it has recurred in the scar, meaning they didn’t remove enough! I now have to have another wle and an slnb. I was just getting to the point where I was ok with living with this diagnosis and not being scared all the time.

]]> 21e58f4386494edb7726a6482f87e1bc accaldwell started the topic True local scar recurrence in the forum General Melanoma Community https://forum.melanoma.org/forums/topic/true-local-scar-recurrence/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 16:40:15 -0400 Hi,

I was diagnosed with stage 1a in September 2021.

.4mm, clark 3, no mitosis.

Was told it was as low risk of a lesion as you could get.

Last week I noticed that some pigment was forming in the scar right below where the melanoma has been. It was not there at my last check up in January and was quite hard to notice. Dermatologist removed…Read more

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