anyone ever have a mole on their foot biopsied?

I see a foot doctor once in a while cause of fungus issues, the last time I went I said something like look at the moles only cause I've never noticed them before being there, kind of like out of conversation, he looked at them and said one was irregular, so I had to go see a dermatologist yesterday and they did a biopsy on them, just wondered what happens if it is cancer, will they take my foot off?

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HootyTheNightOwl

No, they don't say "She has cancer, we will chop her foot off".

Amputation is a last resort after they have looked at every other possible treatment option.

You have had the biopsies done now, even if it does turn out to be cancer... it's possible that they might have gotten it all out in these biopsies - or, they might want to go back and take more, give you radiation/chemotherapy or just keep an eye on the area and see what happens.

Don't worry so much about limb amputation at such an early stage in the game - especially when you don't even know for certain that it's cancer at this point.