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A member asked:
What's the difference between nodular melanoma and a regular mole?
8 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
Melanoma: Melanoma is a potentially serious form of skin cancer. A regular mole is not a skin cancer and rarely regresses into a skin cancer.
Answered 9/21/2012
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Cancer vs benign : A "regular mole" is not cancerous. A nodular melanoma is a special type of malignant melanoma, a skin cancer. It is not possible to definitely distinguish the two without a biopsy.
Answered 1/13/2016
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ABCD's: Remember your abcd's when thinking of melanoma. Look for moles with asymmetry boarders that are irregular color differences within the same mole diameter greater than 6mm also any new mole or old that starts to itch, bleed or ulcerate should be of concern. Another rule is the ugly duckling rule. Which refers to a mole that looks distantly different from the others on your body.
Answered 12/10/2013
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About a year ago i rubbed my mole got rubbed off and it bled and left a black spot. it hasn't regrown. if it was nodular melanoma would it have grown back by now?
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Had the same 3 mm slightly raised medium brown mole on inner thigh for 2 years. It hasn't changed. Would nodular melanoma have grown bigger by now?
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Picked off mole (maroon, black tissue initially mistook as blood blister)what I realized later looked exactly= Nodular melanoma. Would bx still be accurate for diagnosis since I picked off visible lesion.
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