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Melanoma...Now Metastasis??
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Aug 11, 2005 - 8:51 pm
My father was diagnosed with melanoma several months ago. He had surgery to remove the whole cheek area from his face and had plastic surgery to correct any abnormalities the surgery left...Biopsies of the lymph nodes revealed no cancer had spread. He had his last radiation treatmet 3 weeks ago...However, he developed a film over his right eye and went to the eye doctor and they said it was just a fast growing cateract which would require cateract surgery. He is scared the cancer from his face has metastasized to his eye...What are the chances of this if the biopsies came back clear?? |
Joined: Jul 2005
Hi,
I am sorry about your father. I know how scary this must all be. My guess would be that if your father's eye doctor thinks that it is cateracts that is probably accurate. However, to reassure you and your father perhaps he should check with his oncologist. I know that the type of melanoma which shows up in the eye is very rare. I have stage 3 melanoma. Mine was on my thigh and metastasized to one lymph node (only a small focus of melanoma made it to the node). I have found the MPIP to be a very good source of information on melanoma and they have an active board so you and your father may want to check that out. Following is that link http://www.mpip.org/
Good luck
Joined: Aug 2005
Hello Carvs:
My wife had a melanoma 2 years ago, and it was removed, along with one lymph node. All other tests came out clear, so we thought we were out of the woods. Last week, she had a pain in her upper right arm. After a bone scan and a needle biopsy, they determined it has metastasized and formed a tumor in her upper left arm bone. Last test is next Wednesday, when we do a Pet-Scan to see if it has spread to the soft tissue (we hope not)., Then, we meet with the oncologist at Dana Farber on Thursday to discuss treatment options.
Right now, I don't know enough about this disease. What is the survival rate? Is medicine and treatments catching up to this dise