Since I’m the Frank of the topic, after reading the post just cited, thought I should add one more thing for those who don’t know this about me. Melanoma is my second definitively diagnosed cancer. Just a little over ten years ago, I received a diagnosis of Stage II invasive ductal male breast cancer. I received a lumpectomy with lymphandectomy (13), a 24 week course in CMF chemo, and radiation with a 5 year tamoxifen follow on. No recurrence. The breast cancer was left breast. My lymphendectomy on the right side when I was 15 in 1956 was on my right side. I can’t worry about lymphedema, don’t, and have never had a problem, thank God. My mother, 20 plus years after her bout with melanoma (don’t know the stage but it was deep) died of lymphoma for which she never pursued a biopsy. So I don’t know for certain how they were sure except appearances that it was lymphoma. She was 93 and felt she had lived long enough.
