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Skin Cancer
Archives for September 2011
Discussion List
Melanoma Stage I After Treatment
At the age of 24, I was diagnosed with Stage I melanoma on my back. It came as quite a shock! They did a wide excision and removed 1" around the melanoma which all came back clean. Last year, 5 years after my initial diagnosis, I was diagnosed with another Stage I melanoma on my upper arm. They did a wide excision on that…
please comment. I need insight.
I was diagnosed with stage II melanoma while I was 7 months pregnant with my son in January of last year. I had a wide excision of the area on my right cheek about the size of a half dollar and a biopsy of the sentinal lymph nodes. My results came in clean, the cancer hadnt spread to the lymph nodes and I was given…
Diagnosed Stage IV Metastatic June 2011 : Brain, Liver & Lung : Started Yervoy!
Hi everyone, this is my 1st time posting, just joined a few days ago. I'm from Pittsburgh, PA, thankfully home of the Hillman Cancer Center & UPMC Presby, two of the top places to get treated. Back in May 2011, I had horrible headaches, and my vision was getting blurry, for almost a month I dealt with it (thinking it was…
Dxed with melanoma
Hi All, I went to the doctor to get a script and came back with a melanoma diagnosis after excision and admittance to the melanoma unit. Quite took me by surprise, I do not know what stage yet or anything but am about to be very unwillingly launched onto yet another round with cancer. I lost my wife to a GBM just in June.…
Metastatic Melanoma to the liver - Sept 2011
My father was just diagnosed with metatstatic melanoma to the liver. Everything I read is very grim... and I need some hope. He was biopsied yesterday to see if he has the gene mutation for BRAF and the new Zelboraf drug. We will find out next week. He is symptomatic (chronic cough, some weight loss, and pain in his…