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Old 09-07-2012, 07:45 PM
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Whatever you do DONT WAIT..... see a dermatologist. WE used Dr Friedman and he was fairly easy to get into see and took care of the problem. Let me tell you in our situation, we had a VERY small perfectly round black dot where the sun does not shine..and I checked out all of the on-line literature and this did not look like anything. When the Dr checked it out ....he took it out but also said does not appear to be a problem BUT he would send it to Moffit in Tampa. Results came back from Tampa and it was Maligant melamoma ...... Dr calls us back up and we had to have a more extensive procedure to dig it out (fortunately it was pre-stage one...thats how early we got it) and then follow up check ups. 2 years later all looks good!

DONT WAIT !!!!!!!!!!