thankyou for your reply.....iam not coping with this at all, sorry to hare your in the same boat. i think the worse part is thinking that i had it and didnt feel any diffrent within myself. think i need to see someone i just keep breaking down for no reason but thanks for listneing, nobody seems to understand why iam so down all my friends and family i mean which just makes me feel even more down xx

Hi Smillerjude,

Skin cancer is cancer at the end of the day and people who haven`t had it had it will probably not understand what you are going through. I had a malignant melanoma back in 2005 on my left buttock. I had it removed with a large bit of buttock and asked if they would mind doing the other side while they were there so as I had a matching pair!! No deal. I was very fortunate in the fact it was my bum and the only person who has to look at it is hubby and it hadn`t spread to the lymph nodes. I also consider the fact that I get checked every 6 months by the hospital to be a good thing as if anything else shows up they can catch it early. A doctor friend tried to put it to perspective for me and told me that as it wasn`t in the lymph glands to think "superficial". The fact that you have had yours on your neck and you see it everytime you look in the mirror is bound to make it harder to deal with but if you can look at it as a reminder that you have beaten cancer, as a sort of war wound and be proud of it ( i know it`s easy for me to say with mine hidden) hopefully this may in time go someway to help you deal with it. It`s really OK to be scared but you have to live too.

hope this will help a little britlass

Hello, My grandad had skin cancer on his temple, he had an operation to remove it a couple of years ago and the doctors said he was all clear but he developed it on his hands and yet no doctor diagnosed it! he passed away last november. My mum now also has skin cancer and is now going to have an op to remove hers.

I get paranoid now cos cancer runs in both my family and my fiance's family so i'm always checking him for the slightest mark ( it annoys him but he understands lol).

I hope everyone gets the all clear soon

Laura x

Hi,

I had a malignant melanoma five years ago and several further abnormal growths which were successfully removed and I was thankfully given all clears after wider excisions. Earlier this year I had a suspected basal cell carcinoma and something else that looked similar to an abnormal growth I had last year. I decided I didn't want more surgery and wanted to stop the abnormal growths/ suspected cancers from appearing and managed to heal naturally from this so was able to cancel my biopsies.

I don't think there's anything wrong with surgery if that's what you choose. We're all different and we'll do what feels right for us, however I now feel very passionate about helping people to gain perspective, understand their options and to choose a path that's right for them so I'm writing an e-book on how to cope with and heal from skin cancer.

Would anyone be willing to share what their big questions or what their anxieties are/ have been when you've either been scheduled for biopsies for suspected skin cancer or been given a diagnosis?

Many thanks and very warm wishes to everyone for all clears and being cancer free for good

thankyou britlass you made me giggle....... its nice to no am not the only one dealing with this and it helps me loadsthanks:grin: . iv just been back to the hosp for a check and everything is ok for the moment.... i go back in 3 months.

iv also got some camoflage cream ( makeup) to try and hide it but i carnt put it on properly lol little more practice and ill get their in the end lol xxxxxxxx

hi ther is very little posts on here about malig mal hard to understad what to think also i just had a weird mole chopped of and im waiting on the biopsy to tell me if i have this really scary problem. im 23 and i have a 6 year old daughter the thoughts that run through my mind every second are drining me crazy sorry to be a downer on al you positive people im just really scared and even though nothing has been confirmed yet i fear the worst becasuse it looks alot like the big c :(. can any1 tell me if they know of a good chat site wher i can speak to ppl 1 on 1 i just really feel like i need a freind who understands i think we should al pull together i know i would luv to help some1 feel better with al these terrible feelings that i feel. i know i dont have my answers yet but i would still lyk the feedback and if i can be ther for some1 in need to i would.

best wishes to you al x

Best specialist Melanoma Board is probably this one.

Hi there,

my wife (51) has breast cancer (diagnosed about 5 weeks ago) and the oncologist/surgeon insisted that she come in for surgery (mastectomy) the next week (to be followed up by chemo/radiation). Because he made it sound as if this was the only option, my wife didn't wonna wait any longer and agreed with him. However, the day before the operation, we've found out about 'German New Medicine' (GNM) and canceled the operation. To keep the oncologist at bay, so that we could first look in to this GNM stuff, we agreed to reschedule the operation for the 30th of july.

While looking at GNM, we also discovered other things (for instance, did you know that about 22% of breast cancer, detected in an early stage, just disappear when left alone (!): www.nytimes.com/.../25iht-cancer.1.18132547.html

This is in accordance with GNM (www.germannewmedicine.com/), so at the moment, besides changing our diet - no more red meat, plenty of fruits/vegetables - we're just doing 'nothing', meaning, we've found the conflict which started this cell growth (cancer) and resolved it (see more about this at the GNM site).

We've also canceled the operation which should have taken place on july 30. My wife feels great (she's not in denial, although that's what many would think). Also went to a one day seminar (7 hours) in the Netherlands, about GNM and at first was shocked when the speaker smiled when I mentioned the expression 'life-threatening' in connection with cancer (he knew that this was about an early stage breast cancer, but still, since 'they' consider disease as literary being a healing-symptom, his reaction was honest - and it also felt that way).

Don't let anyone hurry you into something (the international standard 'waiting time' between diagnosis and operation is 6 weeks anyway). Fear is a bad adviser. I would like to end with the words of someone who reviewed a book about GNM:

"Having worked in the healing field for many years, I understand the connection between disease and the psychological/emotional aspects of healing. This book gives a new point of view, and supports the statistics that the death rate goes down when hospitals are shut down.Here are stories about people who walked out of doctors offices with death written on their back because of the incurable and survived - even healed. Not because of any magic pills, medicine or, even, healers, but because the stress in their life changed, the environment changed, or they, simply, took responsibility for themselves. Protocol's are given to identify the psychological/emotional experience with the 'sick' part of the body. This is a real "out-side-the-box" concept, but having healed myself, and seen others heal absolutely without medical doctors in anyway involved, I know this guy (Dr.Hamer) has got "it." He may not have all of "it," but he owns a significant piece of how the body/mind connection works."

Hope this will help you (and/or maybe some other people on this forum).

Good luck!

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im really scared,my two biggest moles(on my arm and chest)have grown and the edges are ragged,the one on my arm bleeds and itches.Do i hav the big C?can anyone tell me?i dont want to tell anyone incase its nothing,but what if it is?what do i need to do?please help,im only 14.