Nemesis

I would like to hear more opinions.

Ask for immunotherapy.

About 15% chances of node involvement.

Congratulations! I take it the doctors advised you to wait for 3 years after the treatment before trying for a baby?

Very happy for you Ashley! Skol from Minnesota!

Hi Happy_girl!

I am sorry you had to deal with this stpid melanoma. I was diagnosed 6 months after my son was born with a T1b stage. I was lucky we caught it in time, although technically I got no type of scans, so who knows? SNLB came back negative.

I asked my dermatologist and she said there is no reason to wait. I read and read, and cannot figure anything definite. Were my hormones the final push to the melanoma appearing, or my surpressed imune state? What will happen if I get pregnant? Is it going to come back as a new primary, or would the tiny melanoma cells I might still have floating in my body activate and send me straight o stage 2?

Anyway, because I am 35 I have decided to try for a second child in late summer of 2018. That would put me a bit over 1.5 years of waiting.

Good luck, and please update with any new information you might get from your doctors about pregnancy and melanoma.

Of course it popped up while I was writing this message.

I would. Mine was T1b as well and asked for one and got it.

They told me the chances of a node coming back positive are the Breslow depth  times 10. So, 20% for you. There is also this online calculator:

http://www.lifemath.net/cancer/melanoma/outcome/index.php

I take it to mean the oposite. 50% of the patients have not survived to 2 years.

I take it to mean the oposite. 50% of the patients have not survive to 2 years.

Awesome. My tumor was 1b, and I am stage 1A now after the new guidelines. Mine was found when my son was 5 months old, and I will wait for two years before trying again. That time will be up in nov, so I am pretty excited!