Dear doctor.
@ 1st I would say god bless you for helping people,
my Question is my life is little depressing. I’m a father of 2 and I’m 32yrs old,
I was diagnosed with melanoma in situ on my right arm, which was a mole size of a pencil eraser I had the mole for 5 to 6 years, and the last year or 2 it started having irregular borders, and went to dermatologist and did a shave biopsy and sent to lab got results melanoma in situ, well I was referred to oncologist @ John Wayne Cancer center, the doctor performed wide excision and was referred to the lab and lab results were after the surgery melanoma in situ <<> no negative malignancy or tumor was detected… well no lymph node test was performed.
My 2 questions are, since they did a shave biopsy, I mean that is not recommended correct ???? which would not give you accurate depth….
My other Question is, what else I can do what are my chances of survival and reoccurrence, it’s been a year and 1 month and im scared every day and worry worry all day it’s very stressful for me, I just don’t know what do expect, im seeing them every 3 months and I did go for 2 other dermatologist and oncologist back then and now im still worried,,,,