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Originally Posted by LittleDog
My wife has been going to a dermatologist for a couple of years now and has had a few cancerous cells removed and many others have been biopsied and were not cancerous. What bothers me is that she went to the dermatologist yesterday and they did 5 more biopsies. It seems that every time she has an appointment they do more biopsies. I would think they would have checked all the spots before. They just keep finding new places to biopsy.
Would this be normal for a dermatologist?
John
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It depends. A "spot" that looked normal 6 months or a year ago my have changed to the degree that it has now become "suspicious". That is why Dermatologists recommend that you do a self-exam monthly.
The only accurate way to determine whether or not a growth or lesion is malignant is through a biopsy. With your wife's history of skin cancer, she is a prime candidate for future cancers.
As I told my Dermatologist, regarding biopsies, "I would rather have ten too many than one too few". Untreated melanoma is fatal and untreated or the delayed treatment or basal cell and squamous cell cancers can be quite disfiguring.