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Originally Posted by Noah930
With melanoma, it's the depth of invasion which is important. There are a couple staging conventions. The Breslow one is better. But that information you won't know until the specimen is sent off to the pathologist. Best of luck.
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Obviously listen to the Doc here.
My brother fought melanoma and passed last November. It can play hide and seek on you and like Noah says, the depth is important. Given how quickly my brother's melanoma metastasized to other organs, I'd opt for cutting out as much surgically as possible. You're not dealing with just a basal cell carcinoma here.
MOHS, as I understand, is designed to use minimal margins to preserve natural benign tissue. This could be important depending on the location of your lesion (like face or penile lesions). But if appearance or conserving important natural tissue aren't considerations, I'd opt for a scorched earth approach and live a long and happy life with a big old scar.
Best of luck to you.