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Old 05-04-2025, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Velvet View Post
Yes, Bob Marley, for example, under toe nail melanoma at age 36, killed him.
Subungual melanoma killed the great Bob Marley, very nasty stuff. Same thing I had under my thumbnail. Would’ve eventually killed me if not totally removed with good margins. I didn’t screw around, went straight to a melanoma specialist at Massachusetts General. The clowns in western Massachusetts wanted to send me to an orthopedic surgeon to have my thumb amputated. Glad I went to the best, it took her two tries, but she got it all and confirmed it hadn’t spread with a sentinel lymph node biopsy. You can’t beat Mass General.

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