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Diagnosed with melanoma in situ a year ago. what are my chances of reoccurance? can it come back and spread without forming a visable lesion? paranoi

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Cured: In situ melanoma is extremely localized. If resected with a least 1 cm. margin of normal skin, this is then a cured lesion. The potential for a new and distinct lesion to appear is always a possibility. No chance that the in-situ lesion could have spread.

Answered 1/23/2018

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