Hello, if someone can answer this question I'd be greatly pleased.
My wife has a brown stripe on her nail that has been there even before I met her 4 years ago. I would say it has been there 5 or 6 years. She got it checked out in Peru. The Doctor said if it was cancer she'd already be dead. As mean as it sounds it calmed me down. Then I found out recently it could be melanoma.
So I went online to do some research about it, but I am left in the dark on a few things.
I have seen most of the people with melanoma in their nails have a very brown bottom area of the nail, she doesn't you just see the nail fade away under her light skin. She is hispanic, I heard it is more common to have random brown stripes in darker colored people.
It starts on the corner of her pinky nail, not the thumb, and not in the middle of the nail.
Also some seem to have bruises around the area or big large lumps, she does not have either of those. The finger is painfree as well.
I plan to take her to get checked out, but I was hoping to get a professionals opinion first.
Please help :(