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Topic Title: Anyone have skin cancer come back in same slot after removal?
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Created On: 06/30/2015 10:27 AM

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06/30/2015 10:27 AM
TyroneShoelaces Posts: 1057 Joined Forum: 07/27/2009	I had Mohs done on a spot on my for head last year. It's back again in the same spot. Not sure if they just didn't get it all or if this is not uncommon. I hate to go back to the same place and give em more money if they mucked it up the first time. -------------------------
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06/30/2015 10:34 AM
Central Floridave Posts: 52285 Joined Forum: 07/22/2003	That is strange as Mohs is suppose to check the margins as it cuts. Sounds like a screw up. I've only had skin cancer removed the old fashion way...with a scalpel....then biopsy.
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06/30/2015 10:49 AM
BLat Posts: 1017 Joined Forum: 10/28/2010	Here's a publication from 2011 that has some numbers The 5-year recurrence rates of 587 aggressive and/or recurrent facial basal cell carcinomas treated during 1993 to 2003 at our centre were studied retrospectively. The resulting 5-year recurrence rates using Kaplan-Meier survival analysis were 2.1% for primary (previously untreated) tumours, 5.2% for recurrent basal cell carcinomas and 3.3% overall. In total, 87.9% of the tumours required at least two stages of Mohs micrographic surgery. The surgical defect's size after complete excision was, on average, approximately twice the size of the defect after excision of the clinically visible tumour with a 2-3 mm margin. untreated (aka: first time being treated) tumors - 2.1% chance of recurrence tumors that have already reccured at least once - 5.2% chance of recurrence "Overall" = 3.3% chance
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06/30/2015 10:50 AM
MPSB2 Posts: 775 Joined Forum: 10/01/2006	Sounds to me like they didn't get it all. I had a non cancerous mole removed and it initially healed fine and appeared to be completely gone. Within a month it was showing pigment and 6 months later it's almost completely grown back into the same shape and size it originally was, just not raised. I'd call the Dr. up and see what they say! ------------------------- Instagram.com/Mels_Big_Racks
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06/30/2015 12:58 PM
dingpatch Posts: 19087 Joined Forum: 07/24/2003	I had a Squamous pop up three times in the same spot on a finger. Gone now, for now. Oh, and, , , , just to make our day, , , , Citrus Fruit Consumption Linked to Melanoma ------------------------- Dora Hates You
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06/30/2015 01:31 PM
hodad66 Posts: 14919 Joined Forum: 07/22/2003	Ding........ that is truly depressing!!!! None of mine have come back...... ------------------------- Replace turf grass with native plants that don't need irrigation and synthetic fertilizers or chemicals that can go into our waterways and ocean
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06/30/2015 02:15 PM
dingpatch Posts: 19087 Joined Forum: 07/24/2003	Dad, No, not too bad at all, , , , my Derm uses beauty like a knife, , , , LOL! At least, no more melanoma. You doing OK? ------------------------- Dora Hates You
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07/01/2015 06:24 AM
TATTOO74 Posts: 2407 Joined Forum: 10/26/2005	This would be my worst nightmare. I had MOhs on my lower lip for Squamous cell carcinoma. They ended up taking over a third of it off to make sure all the margins were gone. I assumed that this procedure would mean they got it all for good. Maybe go to a different Dr. this time.
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07/01/2015 11:21 AM
dingpatch Posts: 19087 Joined Forum: 07/24/2003	ANY form of Cancer = NO guarantees ------------------------- Dora Hates You
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07/01/2015 11:30 AM
ww Posts: 16104 Joined Forum: 08/17/2007	I've been lucky with my nose, almost 15 years now. Oddly enough, the only comment I ever got on its butchered appearance was from a plastic surgeon, who said the repair job (it took a skin graft) looked really good.
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07/01/2015 01:03 PM
JBSURF Posts: 2125 Joined Forum: 10/11/2004	http://www.oneanswertocancermo.../bill_oleary_story.htm ------------------------- I've decided to accept the fact - I'll always be a big kid!
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