Urgent hospital appointment following mole removal

[hopelessbusiness]

My stepdaughter had a mole removed on Monday (GP didn't like the look of it and fast tracked her.)
She's had a phone call this afternoon, hospital want to see her tomorrow.
How worried should we be?
I realise noone can say for definite but we're panicking a little - not in front of her obviously.

You should be very relieved that the hospital will see her tomorrow. They can remove it straight away and start any other treatment needed. Try not to worry.

@GreatOffWhiteFalcon they removed the mole on Monday. No further follow up.
All I can think is that they've got the pathology results and it's not good.

Sorry I misunderstood. Fingers crossed for you all. X

It might be that they have got the pathology back and she just needs some more treatment, it isn’t necessarily a big thing, they have all sorts of ways of dealing with moles, they might need to take a wider excision or there is a surgery where they take thin layers off the area, its all very controlled. Good thing is they are dealing with it promptly xx

Easy for me to say but there's no point worrying until you know why they want to see her.

It's usually only blood cancers and similar that move that fast. If they removed it on Monday it might not even have arrived at the lab until Tuesday.

However, even if it was malignant usually either they will have removed it with clear margins or they just need to take a bit more because they weren't happy with the margins. For most people that is then the end of it.

No point panicking.

I have had a few moles removed and the results have usually been communicated by letter a few weeks later. The exception, when they called me and asked me to come in within a few days, was because it was a melanoma - type 1A so caught very early and I just needed to have what’s called a Wide Local Excision where they take more flesh out around where the mole was. They also checked if it had gone to my lymph nodes, and it hadn’t, so no other treatment required - just some very unflattering full body naked photos so they could track all my other moles over time. The first appointment (the call back) was a bit of a shock, but I soon realised what good news it was that it had been diagnosed so early. I do hope your stepdaughter gets similar or better results xxx

I would think it’s quite unlikely they have the results so quickly. I have melanoma and my results took 4 weeks and only because I hassled the shit out of them and had a growing mass in my lymph node (which also turned out to be cancer). Normal turnaround time is more like 8 weeks.

More than likely it’s a follow up to the original biopsy to check the incision (which I’ll be honest, I would have been more comfortable with a dermatologist doing than the GP). Because they haven’t seen her at all yet, they probably want to get her in to ask some follow up questions.

@hopelessbusinesshow did the appointment go?

@Sportbilly79 thanks for asking!
She got there accompanied by my DH (in case of bad news) only to be told that there was no need for her to come in, the appointment had been made in error. It was for a wound check but they hadn't realised she had dissolvable stitches so it wasn't necessary...