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Metastatic melanoma stage iv
Has anyone had any experience with metastatic melanoma that has spread to the bones,liver, lungs and lymph nodes? My brother has been diagnosed and it seems time is of the essence but little is getting done with urgency.From what I have found on line we only have a matter of months to get something done! He is under going…
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melanoma (SP?)
I am just checking in on this site (I normally am on breat cancer page) but I was just curious... friend had melanoma/ surgery and plastic surgery and only sees a demortologist..NOT an oncologist...is this common practice? I THOUGHT no matter what cancer we all saw oncologists of some sort.. Thanks..
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Husand just diagnosed Stage 4 metastatic melanoma.. HELP
My husbaned had melanoma 12 years ago. It was classified as a stage 2 and involved a lision on his back and evidence of cancer in a sentinal node under in his armpit. Seven lymph nodes were removed at the time. Now, flash forward, three skin lisions appeared and after biopsies, pet scan, etc, he has been diagnosed as stage…
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BCC-Very Scared
Hello everyone, Here is my mom's story. She had a lump on her eyebrow above her eye and the furthest back she can remember NOT having it is 5 years ago. She has definately had it for 2 years. A ear, nose, and throat doctor removed it assuming it was just a cyst. Turns out it was BCC. My mom and I go back monday to have her…
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Diagnosed with BCC yesterday and I'm scared to death
I have had this spot for more than 10 years on my forehead. When I went to see a plastic surgeon/dermatologist for another issue, as soon as he saw it, he asked to biopsy. Yesterday he told me what it was and that his concern was how long it has been there. He made me an consult appointment with a dermatologist that does…
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Whole Brain Radiation, Melanoma - HELP!
Cancer Sucks What else do you tell yourself when naked fear once again seeps inside your bones and curls around your heart to hang on for dear life, Cancer Sucks. Driving home Bob and I become lost in our own thoughts, each trying to catch our breath with the news given at his doctor’s appointment. I notice tears falling…
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Anyone have problems long after interferon therapy ended?
I ended my interferon therapy in June 08. I still have daily headaches, joint pain, memory problems and several other of the common side effects associated with interferon. Has any one else had prolonged side effects from this therapy? I have seen my pcp but he has not mentioned if he feels like these problems are related…
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Tumeric fyI
http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/20-health-benefits-of-turmeric.html The active ingredient in turmeric is curcumin. Tumeric has been used for over 2500 years in India, where it was most likely first used as a dye. The medicinal properties of this spice have been slowly revealing themselves over the centuries. Long…
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Gamma Knife Surgery - I hate this cancer!
After Bob’s brain surgery on January 12th it had been decided that he needed to be treated with Gamma Knife Surgery. This procedure was done on Tuesday, February 1st, it was a long process that started at 6 in the morning and we walked out of there by Noon. In the two weeks after Bob’s brain surgery his tumor had started…
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Just diagnosed with BCC yesterday & I am so scared
Hi all, I don't know where to begin except that I am so scared and still a bit numb. I have had this spot on my forhead for over 10 years. I just went to a plastic surgeon/dermatologist for another issue. As soon as he walked in, he spotted it immediately, and asked to biopsy. When he gave me the news, he told me it is…
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Re-posting of survivor's message
I do not have skin cancer and just jumped onto this board to share the following--I don't know if this survivor is already on this board or not but I loved her story: 7. April 27, 2010 1:45 pm I, too, have miraculously survived my original expiration date. Mine is stage four melanoma. (Stage five is the other side of the…
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Melanoma and Leukine
Hi, I was just wondering if anybody has recently been put on the Drug Leukine for their Melanoma. I was diagnosed in October of 2009 with Stage 3 Melanoma. It was found with a bothersome mole on my back. Ok, when I say bothersome, I mean it was raised and irritated by my bra strap. I work at a hospital so I went by one of…
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Diet
Has anybody tried a specific diet in conjunction with traditional medicine to fight melanoma? If so, is it different for melanoma patients than other cancer patients? Supplements, etc? Thanks!
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melanoma of the eye
any one out there had melanoma of the eye
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Melanoma and Clinical Trials
My husband recently discovered he has melanoma stage 3. The primary was never found but the tumor that was discovered was taken was surgically removed and all lymph nodes surrounding it (18 tested negative). Treatments offered to my husband to choose from: 1. Interferon 2. Clinical trial, cancer vaccine made from husband's…
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Nodular Melanoma - posted 2/8/11
My husband was recently diagnosed with Malignant Melanoma - Nodular. The Breslow Thickness was 8.5 mm Clarks Level IV. I'm not sure if they considered it ulcerated or not. I know that it has bled before he had the biopsy... but I'm not sure if that's considered ulcerated or not. I've read ulcerated has something to do with…
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Cashew-Based Skin Cream For BCC
Hey guys, I just want to share this article that i've read from a local (philippine) Cancer magazine about a skin cream made from cashew nut extracts that is proven to treat BCC without surgery. This cream is know as DeBCC and the inventor received the top prize during the annual convention of the Clinical Congress of the…
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Newly Diagnosed - Brain Mets
I always look forward to a fresh start, a new year, but 2011 had its own plan for my husband and I. My husband had his first retesting last week since his surgery in July - removal of tumor in groin/leg area and 18 lymph nodes that all tested negative (missing primary). Last week a physical, blood workup, and another PET…
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Brain Surgery and Home in 3 Days
Husband, Bob has pulled through his 3 hour surgery with the least effects, staples, swelling, pain and mixed up words. His balance, coordination, touch, recognition, etc. all in tack. The doctors were correct that as the swelling in his brain goes down the mixed up words get less as time goes on. My husband was able to…
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Looking for feedback and support
Over the recent Labor Day weekend I was in the shower and noticed a small bump to the left side of my groin. It didn’t hurt so I wasn’t overly concerned. I made an appointment with my Primary (same doctor) the Tuesday after the holiday. He felt it and told me he was concerned it may be a Melanoma reoccurrence and gave me a…
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SCC ON THE LOWER LIP
My husband has a place on his lower lip. A little more than two months ago he went to Derm. and had it frozen, did not work. Went back and she took out some, did not work. Went 3 & 4th time for more. First biposy showed a "wart" - last biopsy showed squamous cell carcinoma. Our worry is it is not healing well, he is having…
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No support from friends, newly diagnosed
Hi all, I am scheduled for a MOH surgery for basal cell on my lower back in a few weeks. I have researched several cancer sites re skin cancer. Every site recommends hat, sunscreen and protective clothes...no full sun activities from 10-4. My golfing friends say I'm overreacting by not playing golf during 10-4. I am…
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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…
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information needed about interluken 2 and temozolomide
I am currently stage 4 malignant malinoma that is spreading. I have the two choices of treatment availible and need to make a decision about which to go with. The temezolanide is a pill that one takes for five days then off for three weeks then five days again. Through the Veterans Hospital, Portland Oregon The interluken…
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Basal Cell Carcinoma
What if it's not malignant?
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Interfron 1 yr out have trouble
Hi I just a few week out from 1 year form finishing Interferon (Sept) . I did the full year with out stopping or adjusting my dose. I started walking at the Y and was back on my feet in 4 months and started back to work (Jan) I all but back to full strength when around April Developed a cough (got a CT in May it was fine).…
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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,…
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Mole with black spot
I've had a fairly large mole on my back for as long as I could remember, I've never really given it a good look until recently however. Over the past year I've spent a great deal of time in bed on the computer, lying on my back, and one day I noticed my mole was "stinging". I checked it out in the mirror and noticed there…
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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
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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…