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Skin Cancer
Archives for October 2010
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New here and newly diagnosed
New here and newly diagnosed Submitted by fliberdy on October 23, 2010 - 6:44am Hello anyone, I have never blogged (is that even a word?) before but I was recently diagnosed with melanoma and am looking to talk with someone who is going thru something like myself. Had a derm do a skin check at the beginning of September,…
melanoma
i was diagnosed with melanoma last week and know i am having limpnod bisection on thursday can anyone tell me what to expect i am very restless. my father passed on oct 9 2010 of melanoma cancer after a 6 year battle thank you all and God bless you all. Never give up your fight
Building Up The Immune System
"Did you know that cancer loves sugar?" my husband asked me. My husband, Bob has just come back from his doctor’s appointment with Dr. Miles Hassell, Internist and Director of Alternative Medicine at Providence St. Vincent here in Portland, OR. Bob decided against a plan of treating his melanoma with very caustic…
Clear skin melanoma on face and radiation/gamma knife
Has anyone been diagnosed/treated/researched clear skin melanomas?
How long for blood cell counts to recover after interferon treatment ends?
Hi everyone. I'm about to finish up my year of interferon. Throughout most of this year, my white blood cell count has stayed down around 2000-2500. It even stayed low during the entire month I had to take off due to an infection. (My oncologist actually laughed because I had hoped that my WBC might actually have risen…
Newly diagnosed with malignant Melonoma and unrelated Prostate cancer. Scared about delays in treatm
I have been diagnosed with 2 different types of cancer since late July and still have had no treatment. Prostate cancer was the first in late July and malignant Melanoma in mid Sept. I am scheduled to have surgery on Oct 8 to have 3 large lumps on my head and neck removed. It has been delay after delay and one 2 to 3 week…
once i have had BCC, does it mean they will just keep popping up again, every few years?
i had my first superficial basal cell carcinoma on my skin when i was 31! i have fair skin and freckles and don't sunbake at all, but i got some pretty bad burns as a kid and once in my 20's (accident, cloudy day on beach and went for a walk for 2 hours) with large amounts of peeling skin, blisters etc. i had photodynamic…