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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Same thing happened to me. I have about 50 moles and see a derm twice a year for a skin exam. I had one mole that was tiny, black and raised and new. Derm was concerned but thought it was probably ok. Turned out it was one step below a melanoma. I had to have a wide excision, about 3-4 inch scar. It was diagnosed as a severely dysplastic mole. And it was tiny and didn't have any weird colorations. But the key was that it was very different than my other moles, even though it was small. It's been almost a decade, and you can barely see the wide excision scar. I still go for my twice a year exams, and no scary moles have been observed.[/quote] There is the (correct) school of thought that says it's either cancer or it's not, and every dysplastic mole doesn't turn into cancer. Docs make so much money on surgeries like this. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9968857[/quote]
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