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<blockquote data-quote="Gus Petch" data-source="post: 3332804" data-attributes="member: 5452"><p>Any skin cancer has the potential to spread if it's near a lymph node, but melanoma has the greatest potential to spread to a lymph node. My dad spent years in the sun and seems to have a basal cell carcinoma that needs removed every year or so, always on his face, neck, or upper shoulder area.</p><p></p><p>I had a SCC removed from my shin two years ago even though I don't wear shorts or anything that would expose my legs, but I had one and had it a long time before I did anything about it. (Don't try this at home.) It was about the size, shape, and color of a Ticonderoga pencil eraser and never changed; I could pick at it or bump into something and it would fall off, my leg would bleed like a sieve, heal up, and the damned thing would grow back and look just like it had previously. This went on for close to ten years. At any rate, my primary care physician sent me to a dermatologist for a biopsy and ultimately had it removed via a Mohs procedure.</p><p></p><p>The dermatologist will likely want to aggressively screen your wife for skin cancer following removal of the melanoma. (Usually every 90 days for the first two years following the removal.) I have my doubts regarding the efficacy of that (I don't do it), but she'll need to discuss that with her dermatologist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gus Petch, post: 3332804, member: 5452"] Any skin cancer has the potential to spread if it's near a lymph node, but melanoma has the greatest potential to spread to a lymph node. My dad spent years in the sun and seems to have a basal cell carcinoma that needs removed every year or so, always on his face, neck, or upper shoulder area. I had a SCC removed from my shin two years ago even though I don't wear shorts or anything that would expose my legs, but I had one and had it a long time before I did anything about it. (Don't try this at home.) It was about the size, shape, and color of a Ticonderoga pencil eraser and never changed; I could pick at it or bump into something and it would fall off, my leg would bleed like a sieve, heal up, and the damned thing would grow back and look just like it had previously. This went on for close to ten years. At any rate, my primary care physician sent me to a dermatologist for a biopsy and ultimately had it removed via a Mohs procedure. The dermatologist will likely want to aggressively screen your wife for skin cancer following removal of the melanoma. (Usually every 90 days for the first two years following the removal.) I have my doubts regarding the efficacy of that (I don't do it), but she'll need to discuss that with her dermatologist. [/QUOTE]
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