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      • November 20, 2015 at 6:24 pm
      doublejen
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      Thanks everyone for your wisdom. We are getting a copy of the path report and will go from there. Husband is not so interested in a second opinion, not as worried as I am. But we have a contact at NIH who looked at his original path report from his mole, so hopefully we can get him to look at this one, too.

      Jen

      • November 20, 2015 at 6:24 pm
      doublejen
      Participant

      Thanks everyone for your wisdom. We are getting a copy of the path report and will go from there. Husband is not so interested in a second opinion, not as worried as I am. But we have a contact at NIH who looked at his original path report from his mole, so hopefully we can get him to look at this one, too.

      Jen

      • November 20, 2015 at 6:24 pm
      doublejen
      Participant

      Thanks everyone for your wisdom. We are getting a copy of the path report and will go from there. Husband is not so interested in a second opinion, not as worried as I am. But we have a contact at NIH who looked at his original path report from his mole, so hopefully we can get him to look at this one, too.

      Jen

      • November 20, 2015 at 6:23 pm
      doublejen
      Participant

      This is my concern. I don't understand how ANY melanoma cells in a lymph node mean he can still be classified as Stage 1, but that's what the doctor said – no additional treatment warranted, based on some study that showed if there are fewer than 20 cancer cells in a lymph node, survival rates are the same as for Stage 1.

      • November 20, 2015 at 6:23 pm
      doublejen
      Participant

      This is my concern. I don't understand how ANY melanoma cells in a lymph node mean he can still be classified as Stage 1, but that's what the doctor said – no additional treatment warranted, based on some study that showed if there are fewer than 20 cancer cells in a lymph node, survival rates are the same as for Stage 1.

      • November 20, 2015 at 6:23 pm
      doublejen
      Participant

      This is my concern. I don't understand how ANY melanoma cells in a lymph node mean he can still be classified as Stage 1, but that's what the doctor said – no additional treatment warranted, based on some study that showed if there are fewer than 20 cancer cells in a lymph node, survival rates are the same as for Stage 1.

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