I am back from my Punch Biopsy !!!! Melanoma .. Jim Breitfeller

Before I can be included in the Rose Bengal Clinical Trial, They want to know if the lesion is Melanoma. So, here are some pictures:

This was taken before CTLA-4 & IL-2 therapy.


Taken by my Wife (Dee) on 1/17/2009

Taken by my Wife (Dee) on 1/24/2009
5 days of 2% Mupirocin oinment twice a day

10 days of 2% Mupirocin oinment twice a day

You can see where my wide incision was and the Reoccurrence in the wide incision.One thing that is different, there is no height to the lesion. So is it stuck in the radial growth phase? Has it mutated more? Hopefully the pathology will tell us.


So, Dr. Richardson under the direction of Dr. Marc Brown did the punch biopsy. I did not feel a thing because there is no nerves there due to the surgery. They also froze some skin on mt chest that looked like it could be some basal cell. So Now We wait and see if it is indeed Melanoma.


Jimmy B