SUE LONSWAY

My husband and youngest daughter have the P16 gene which causes melamona.  My husband has had several.  My older daughter who tested NEGATIVE for the gene was just diagnosed with melanoma at age

23.  (Genetic testing will be repeated for both daughters soon!)  Strangely, I also had a melanoma in-situ in 2015 at age 51.  

Even though your post is years old, I just wanted to say that the physician who sent your tissue to be examined should still have possession of the slides and you should be able to have the path report redone by a more reputable lab, such as Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, or University of Pittsburg Medical Center (we use Pittsburg).  Tissue and slides should have not been thrown away. If they were, this would be a reason to make a formal complaint to the hospital or to the physician's state medical board.

Hope you are well. 

My husband and youngest daughter have the P16 gene which causes melamona.  My husband has had several.  My older daughter who tested NEGATIVE for the gene was just diagnosed with melanoma at age

23.  (Genetic testing will be repeated for both daughters soon!)  Strangely, I also had a melanoma in-situ in 2015 at age 51.  

Even though your post is years old, I just wanted to say that the physician who sent your tissue to be examined should still have possession of the slides and you should be able to have the path report redone by a more reputable lab, such as Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, or University of Pittsburg Medical Center (we use Pittsburg).  Tissue and slides should have not been thrown away. If they were, this would be a reason to make a formal complaint to the hospital or to the physician's state medical board.

Hope you are well. 

My husband and youngest daughter have the P16 gene which causes melamona.  My husband has had several.  My older daughter who tested NEGATIVE for the gene was just diagnosed with melanoma at age

23.  (Genetic testing will be repeated for both daughters soon!)  Strangely, I also had a melanoma in-situ in 2015 at age 51.  

Even though your post is years old, I just wanted to say that the physician who sent your tissue to be examined should still have possession of the slides and you should be able to have the path report redone by a more reputable lab, such as Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, or University of Pittsburg Medical Center (we use Pittsburg).  Tissue and slides should have not been thrown away. If they were, this would be a reason to make a formal complaint to the hospital or to the physician's state medical board.

Hope you are well.