“I’m going to refer you on the two-week cancer pathway because the doctor said this doesn’t look right,” she added.
Two weeks after the mole was removed, she had a follow-up visit. Two Macmillan Cancer nurses were also present. At that point, they informed me that it had returned as stage 1B melanoma.
One of the early stages of the most deadly kind of skin cancer is stage 1B melanoma. At this stage, it is usually quite treatable and has not yet spread to neighboring lymph nodes or other body areas.
Ms. Murphy recounted that, at the age of 23, she was the youngest member of her cancer support group. She said that everyone else was in their 40s, 50s, or 60s. “I had a good time.”
