Choosing knowledge as a source of strength, even when the result wasn’t what she hoped

Meet Kristie, a chiropractor from Greenville, South Carolina, who spent months attributing her visual disturbances to migraines — until vision loss in one eye led to an urgent diagnosis: a large melanoma that had already detached her retina. Her care team gave her a brochure for Castle Biosciences’ DecisionDx-UM test, explaining that the biopsy taken during her plaque brachytherapy would be her only chance to have this testing done. After weighing whether she wanted to know, Kristie decided that knowledge was worth having, whatever the result. When her result came back a Class 2, higher-risk finding,  it wasn’t the news she’d hoped for. But it gave her the resolve to stay closely on top of her follow-up scans. More than two years later, she remains free of metastasis and says she would make the same choice again.