Hi - recently diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer and found out yesterday I may have a suspected melanoma on my leg. It's a lot to take in

Hi, I've just recently was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer and had my surgery last week.  Still waiting for the histology. Then yesterday got told that I'm suspected to have a melanoma on my leg and now have leg surgery in 2 weeks time. So possible 2 cancers. Just new to this all....

  • Hello TheBigC and welcome to Cancer Chat.

    I'm sorry to hear you've been recently diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer and may now have a suspected melanoma on your leg. Dealing with not just one, but possibly two cancer diagnoses must be extremely difficult but I'm glad you've reached out to us as quite a lot of our members will know what you're going through, so you are not alone, and hopefully you will receive some support and advice from our community soon.

    I hope the information I've provided above will be useful but if you have any other questions or concerns, you can make a new post in our ask the nurses section of the forum. They're very knowledgeable and will do all they can to offer any further information and advice you may be seeking at this time. 

    In the meantime, I'm sending you all my support and wishing you the very best with your upcoming leg surgery and continued recovery from the surgery you've just had. 

    Kind regards,

    Steph, Cancer Chat Moderator

  • Thanks Steph, this is helpful info. Good to read little about these whilst I wait for the histology results.