Ok, I'm going to go to my own doctor here shortly, but I want your
advice on how bad this sounds. I'm a 24-year-old male, and I noticed a
suspicious mole on my upper buttocks about 2 years ago. I have a good
many moles on my body, but nothing too out of the ordinary really, and
I have a cousin who at a young age was diagnosed with a sort of "pre
skin cancer." Anyway, about the mole, it was weird because --and I kid
you not-- after I noticed it and went for the initial consultation to
my primary care provider, it, over the span of two weeks, TOALLY
disappeared, or at least turned from being brown to pink. When I went
in to give the biopsy sample to my primary care provider, I had to show
him where it "used" to be, but it wasn't too difficult since it still
had a pinkness to it. So, 2 bad signs were shown here: a new mole
growth, and its disappearance within the span of about two weeks.
Anyway, there was no cancer/pre-cancer found from the biopsy, assuming
they did it correctly. Now, two years later, in the very same spot
where the biopsy occurred, the SAME sort of mole has returned.
I guess my question is how often do these types of mole-changes happen
in people with no skin-cancer? I should definitely have this biopsied
again, right? If it wasn't cancerous the first time, does this mean
there's a good chance it's not also this time (even though I should
still make sure)?
Thanks...
TwitteringOne - 13 May 2005 07:31 GMT
Jason - 13 May 2005 17:27 GMT
> Ok, I'm going to go to my own doctor here shortly, but I want your
> advice on how bad this sounds. I'm a 24-year-old male, and I noticed a
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> Thanks...
You need to have your doctor do another biopsy on the new mole ASAP. It
would be impossible for any doctor to determine just by looking at the
mole whether or not it means you have skin cancer.

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xyzer@hotmail.com - 19 May 2005 00:03 GMT
> > Ok, I'm going to go to my own doctor here shortly, but I want your
> > advice on how bad this sounds. I'm a 24-year-old male, and I noticed a
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> would be impossible for any doctor to determine just by looking at the
> mole whether or not it means you have skin cancer.
Just got back from my dermatologist's office. Turns out it wasn't
actually a mole at all but rather a hemangioma, which tend to change
rapidly, thus the worry on my part, as it looked just liked a mole to
the naked eye. He determined this by looking through a DermLite
device, which is basically a handheld microscope that allows him to see
under the surface of the skin. What a great device...no biopsy was
required and thus no cutting and scarring of my skin, even though it
had already been cut on years ago by an earlier biopsy and wasn't in an
obvious area...Still, though, if I have a concern about a mole in the
future, I'm definitely going to him or if I live elsewhere to a
dermatologist who uses a similar device.
Jason - 19 May 2005 01:23 GMT
> > > Ok, I'm going to go to my own doctor here shortly, but I want your
> > > advice on how bad this sounds. I'm a 24-year-old male, and I
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> future, I'm definitely going to him or if I live elsewhere to a
> dermatologist who uses a similar device.
Thanks for your post. This is the first that I have heard or read about
the DermLite. I'm sure that it was much less painful than a biopsy. It's
always great when you can find a doctor that you can really trust. I once
had such a doctor but he retired. My new doctor is nice but it's obvious
that she wants to spend as little time with me as possible.

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