Hi

I’ve been told I need a further operation as my melanoma cancer has spread to more lymph nodes ie an inguinal and supraninguinal lymph node dissection.  Although I was told this would occur within 31 days this is unlikely to happen for at least a couple of weeks after this deadline as the hospital is struggling due to capacity issues.

I’ve explained that I am concerned about the longer wait as my melanoma has a mitotic spread rate of 12 ( usually 1 or 2). Am I right to be worried and what are my options and the effect on my outcome?  I’ve been advised by the consultant not to consider going private for this type of operation and as it is a 6 hour operation with 2 surgeons working on me it would be very expensive.