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Skin Cancer
Archives for February 2005
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Melanoma Treatments
My wife has had 5 surgeries in the last 2 and half years. Hew Melanoma started 23 years ago on her knee. It was removed and for 20 years everything was fine, than it showed up again on the same leg about mid thigh. The James Cancer Hospital removed a tomor the size of 2 golf balls. We than did the interferon treatment for…
Help me please
My mother is suffering from malignant melanoma. She has to have surgery to remove lymph nodes in her groin. She will then begin interferon treatments. I was wondering if anyone knew the life expectancy for this situation. My sister and I are both expecting and I want to know how long my mom will be around.
What happens after treatment?
I have already had my tumor removed from my foot, but the doctors would like to do preventative chemo to that area. It is called isolated limb perfusion. I was wondering if anyone else has had experience with this and could give me an idea of what happened after you went through the treatment.
How do I help?
Hi everyone, I am new to this website and hoping to gather some information and support. I myself do not have cancer but just recently found out a good friend of mine does. She said she is in Stage 3 of Malignant Melanoma, and has had it for 6 years. She goes in every six months for checkups and has a great attitude on…
The Breslow No. - How accurate is it?
I had what was to all appearances only a very small lump removed five months ago from my forehead. The pathology returned a melanoma which was quite a shock. The path report gave it a Breslow No. 7, which I came to understand is BIG and therefore the prognosis bad. I subsequently had a PET scan which was clean and then…