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It was raised and probably the size of an eraser head.  Yes it was there for several months before I noticed it as I later would incidentally see in a picture that was taken about 6 months prior to me even noticing it.  It did bleed when I picked at it.  It ended up being pretty deep, 5.5mm.  I did Cyberknife radiation for 3 small brain lesions in March of 2018 and simultaneously started Keytruda.  6 months later in September the brain was clean and the 7 nodules in the lungs had moderately regressed,  The lesions in my spine were pretty much at a stale mate and the liver tumor was slightly growing.  The decision was made to switch me to Odivio/Ipi to get a little more aggressive.  I was only able to do one treatment in September as I ended up with stage 3 colitis for 2 months.  Fast forward to mid December, the scans showed brain was still clear, lung tumors were now barely detectable, although a new 7mm spot was noted, spine spots some were slightly shrinking and some were slightly growing and the liver is still growing.  So now I’m just on Opdivo alone and am being referred to the radiation interventionists to look at some direct targeting therapies for my liver.  So, it’s a battle but we are working through it and still have a lot of hope.  Again, you most likely are just fine but it’s always good to get it checked as you do not want to go through this.

I had the same thing 3 years ago, and now I’m fighting for my life with stage4 Melanoma.  It looked like a pink wart and I picked at it and even tried some wart medicine but it would just bleed.  Had it surgically removed at Stanford January 2016 and sentinel lymph nodes came up negative but evidently it had already made it past the nodes.  Routine scan in January of 2018 showed it in my liver, spine, lungs and brain.  I’m not trying to scare you as yours is probably nothing, but get on it ASAP.