Melanoma Research Foundation | Minnesota | Activity https://forum.melanoma.org/user/minnesota/activity/ Activity feed for Minnesota. Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:02:08 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 8bebb06c466b30974c9b68dc82ac0fd6 Minnesota started the topic Could someone tell me what a Mitotic Rate of 5 Means? in the forum General Melanoma Community https://forum.melanoma.org/forums/topic/could-someone-tell-me-what-a-mitotic-rate-of-5-means/ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:55:50 -0500 I am newly diagnosed from an excision biopsy, and the only information I have is from a phone call yesterday. I meet with a surgeon next week who is going to do the sentinel lymph node biopsy.
All I know is that I have SSM, it was 1.45 mm?, and had a mitotic rate of 5. 
I got the impression from the doctor's phone call that 5 was a bad…Read more

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