Itchy Irregular Black Small Mole on my Back? (photo)

If your mole has recently become itchy - then I would definitely go back to see your doctor.  I always advise people to look for changes such as bleeding, itching or a change in size or colour. If you experience any of these changes, then it does not necessarily mean that you have a cancerous mole, but it does mean that you should have it checked out.  It may be nothing, and I can understand that you have recently had it checked - but I would advise you to go back and have it checked again.

 

It is difficult to keep an eye on moles that are on the back and so I have a low threshold to remove them.  The back is an area of the body that does not tend to leave particularly good scars, and this is something that you might want to discuss with your doctor.  This mole is not raised and so I do not think that it would be possible to do a shave excision even if you wanted to, but I would definitely advise formal excision rather than shave.  A shave excision does not remove the full thickness of the mole and should not be performed when removing a brown mole.  It is important that the mole is removed in its entirety so that it can be submitted for histological analysis.

 

Good luck.

Itchy irregularly bordered black moles on a part of you like your back which is hard for you to follow should generally be removed.  But not by shaving them.  The concern here is for melanoma which is the deadliest of skin cancers and the proper treatment and prognosis for melanoma depends on knowing the depth of the lesion, critical information which is destroyed by shaving it off.  I'd get another derm.