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inkworks
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 3:25 pm    Post subject: ulceration? Reply with quote
What exactly is ulceration? Can you tell if a mole is ulcertated by looking at it or do you have to wait for a biopsy? My mums possible melanoma has now started to crust. Is crusting ulceration?

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brainman
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 3:51 pm    Post subject: Re: ulceration? Reply with quote
An ulceration is a wound. Often, ulcerations look like a crater and sometimes a clear liquid or blood comes out from them.
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Jim_Hall
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:18 pm    Post subject: Re: ulceration? Reply with quote
What brainman said. Also with my experience with melanoma there is also a different type of ulceration but it can only be determined under a microscope. No ulceration is a better prognosis. Mine began to crust as well and I thought that was ulceration, apparently it is, but there is another one that can only be seen under a microscope.
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inkworks
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:59 am    Post subject: Re: ulceration? Reply with quote
Thanks guys.

Jim was your melanoma ulcerated?
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Jim_Hall
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:04 pm    Post subject: Re: ulceration? Reply with quote
Nope mine wasn't. Which is better than it being ulcerated.
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inkworks
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:13 pm    Post subject: Re: ulceration? Reply with quote
That's good.

I don't know why I'm asking all these questions. I will just have to wait for the biopsy results before I start speculating on what might happen.

Thanks for being patient with me. How are you doing Jim? I hope you are feeling well.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:21 pm    Post subject: Re: ulceration? Reply with quote
inkworks, no need to apologize. Most of us have been in that uncertainty period ourselves. It is not fun and often we have more questions than answers. It does help you to ask them even if the answers are not yet clear to anyone; asking questions prepares you for when the test results are available Wink. So ask away.

Best wishes.
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1992 Astrocytoma grade 2, left motor strip
2005 Recurrence this time said to be an Oligodendoglioma grade 3, same location.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:55 pm    Post subject: Re: ulceration? Reply with quote
As brainman said, ask away. After having it, I think it would have been better for me to know more about it in advance because once I was diagnosed it was so hard think with a racing mind.

I'm doing fine. I'm just waiting on a biopsy result and I have been following a nodule on my lung and it has been stable. I just have an annual blood check at my oncologist in two or three weeks.
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