I have a couple of moles on my side that I’m concerned are melanoma because they’re scaly, have tiny black spots and bleed. I had melanoma on my arm removed 2 yrs ago so I have a history of it. Today I saw my dermatologist at Kaiser and she gave me a steroid creme called Triamcinolone Acetonide because she thinks chances are it’s not melanoma. She wants me to put this steroid creme on them for 2 weeks to see if they get smaller. Steroid creme to get a mole smaller???

For some reason, she flatly REFUSES to cut off any mole unless she’s 100% positive it’s cancer. She said in 2 weeks she’ll know more if it’s cancerous or not. The problem is I’m 6 months pregnant (she knew this) and after I picked up this steroid creme I looked it up online and it’s not supposed to be used while pregnant or breastfeeding because it hasn’t been tested and it’s full of hormones.

Does anyone else think my dermatologist is a moron??? Anyone heard of a treatment like this before a dermatologist will remove a mole?? I mean it takes what, maybe 10 minutes total to remove??? I’m not about to risk hurting my baby from this creme and am very upset.
Hopefully someone will answer besides the spammer…

theres like three hairs sticking out of it and i think its infected. it’s like 1 inch long and 1 and a half inch wide

do you think moles are un attractive?
do i have cancer?

a bump has grown on my dogs face right where his mole is. at first it looked like a pimple but there is no puss in it. It is bleeding but it seems like because he is scratching at it, however, I have never seen him scratch it. I am planning on going to the vet this weekend but does anyone know what it could be?
I’m scared that it could be something serious like cancer

I have had this kind of mole for years, but I don’t know why suddenly is bothering and hurting me little bit, and between the mole and my skin is kind of red or irritated. I am so afraid, can you tell me what is going on, is it getting cancer?

It was very small, on my inner ankle on a right leg, about one 1 mm wide and now it didn’t bleed much. The blood dried almost immediately, but it itches a bit. Can it develop cancer or something?
Now it seems to me it wasn’t cut off completely, just a part of it was incised.