Next steps
Hi everyone, I had my first melanoma removed on my leg almost a year ago now. Then my second on my arm, and now a third find on my back - which I go for the surgery on Tuesday.
My first one I was put to sleep and the other I was/will be just given local anaesthesia and it be done in clinic.
The oncologist for the first one talked about genetic testing if I get 3 but at my doctor appointment they didn’t mention it and when I asked they said surgery is the treatment.
I’m going to ask again on Tuesday but I’m just so upset about all of this. I feel like something more needs to be done. This is the third one found in less than a year and I don’t go in the sun unless I’m on vacation once a year or at the beach here or there during the summer.
Im located in northern Ontario so I am driving down to southern Ontario for all these appointments and I am just almost done. I’m only 26 and I have 3 young kids. I seriously can not live like this anymore I’m scared to even go oit side at all.
What can I do? What can I ask the dermatologist on Tuesday? Any other options than surgery or the immunotherapy they won’t let me have??