It's official.... I will be bald for a short while yet.

[Noor]

I have melanoma and the path results show it's not clear margins, plus we got the biopsy results back from a second spot about 3 inches away from the one I had removed last Friday and it too is a melanoma (being removed on Monday).
We are still waiting for the pathology from the bone sample they took.

Okay, so basically they are getting things in gear just in case, and you guys have socialized medicine...

 

[warrior queen]

Radiation therapy is not the standard course of action for melanoma. Recurrent or really advanced melanoma maybe, but the sentinel node biopsy would be the first port of call especially if unclear margins and/or advanced.

I am confused.

Is this not the norm for melanoma? Excision, followed by radiation?
My specialist seemed pretty sure about this.
Now you make me want to ask even more questions!

 

[Noor]

Is this not the norm for melanoma? Excision, followed by radiation?
My specialist seemed pretty sure about this.
Now you make me want to ask even more questions!

Ask the staging...

They may be just more aggressive in OZ since you guys have tons of melanoma cases.

 

[warrior queen]

Nice. Live long and prosper, indeed.

You don't have quite my ears or my cranium, but you rock the bald look well, considering.

Kids used to call me Spock because my ears are quite pointy.

The nick 'Dobby' has stuck

 

[Not Normal]

Hang tough, and good WQ.

 

[doowdniw]

Sucky news, but better than the Dr.s missing it. Hang in there.

 

[warrior queen]

Well you should ask lots of questions of any doctor regardless of what some random on the internet tells you! For a recurrent melanoma, radiation is pretty standard. I am super surprised they are not taking a lymph node biopsy, even a needle aspiration.

I'm guessing they probably will, come Monday, because of the second spot.
I'll find out tomorrow at me pre-op appt.

 

[eyer]

Radiation therapy is not the standard course of action for melanoma. Recurrent or really advanced melanoma maybe, but the sentinel node biopsy would be the first port of call especially if unclear margins and/or advanced.

I am confused.

Because...

...wanker queen.

Is this not the norm for melanoma? Excision, followed by radiation?
My specialist seemed pretty sure about this.
Now you make me want to ask even more questions!

See...

I'm guessing they probably will, come Monday, because of the second spot.
I'll find out tomorrow at me pre-op appt.

...her doctors will probably come around to your way of thinking in her next Twatterville report.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

They decided not to take them yet. It means a bigger op and I do not react well to full anaesthetic (as in, I tend to arrest).

Ouch. That's a nasty little side effect.

Fingers crossed for you, WQ!

 

[parodyluvr75]

Good luck WQ!

 

[toubab]

Got called in to the doc, and I have another spot on my scalp that needs to come out and then it's off for radiation treatment. Surgery Monday.
Not exactly the news I was hoping for.

Sorry to hear this. Best of luck on everything. I don't know if it helps to tell you this, but I had my first bout with cancer in 1997, and I'm still here.

 

[butters]

eat lots before sunday night! (so you're not as hungry monday while you wait)

better they've found and treated this than not, right? right. best of luck, girl

 

[jeninifer]

Got called in to the doc, and I have another spot on my scalp that needs to come out and then it's off for radiation treatment. Surgery Monday.
Not exactly the news I was hoping for.

You're beautiful. Not because of your hair, but for your strength.

Heal quickly and fully.

 

[BotanyBoy]

http://aminddivideddotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/picard-1.jpg

Picard approves of the look.....


Keep your spirits up WQ
http://www.thepensivecitadel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/neurosis.jpg

 

[duranman]

Good luck girl

J x

 

[RobDownSouth]

Wishing you good luck, and a complete and uneventful recovery.

 

[domroger]

Best of luck .

 

[Cancerballs]

Just Fucking die!

 

[GiggLeGasm]

best of luck to you, WQ..
this new hairless do is a good look for you.

excision.. dissection.. radiation.. biopsy..
let somebody else do all that.
you just breathe and hang in there

 

[Pookie]

Thinking good thoughts and wishing nothing but the best for you, WQ!

Stay strong!

 

[Cancerballs]

Wow, look at all the racist cunt well wishers. She desrves cancer, its too bad she's a lying racist pile of shit.

 

[Lancecastor]

Skin cancer doesn't rate this much attention whoring.

Put some polysporin on it and shut up, already.

 

[CandiCame]

If you go to locks of love there's a chance that you might get my hair. And my hair is gorgeous. So I'd go for it.

 

[queerhe]

You're beautiful. Not because of your hair, but for your strength.

Heal quickly and fully.

She's a racist, lying fucking cunt you ignorant slut.

 

[CandiCame]

She's a racist, lying fucking cunt you ignorant slut.

I'm sorry and I know that you're trying to be bitchy for a good reason but just

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/a1/0d/cc/a10dccf6fc386a396b0f39aeb4a97d94.jpg

And I don't KNOW if you were making a reference or not. But it was still funny.