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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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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…
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Clear skin melanoma on face and radiation/gamma knife
Has anyone been diagnosed/treated/researched clear skin melanomas?
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Treatment with high dose Interferon
I am a RN and my daughter-in-law age 41 has been diagnosed with Stage 2b ulcerated melanoma. Her oncologist has ordered at CT Scan and MRI Scan and referred her for a Clinical Trial with high dose Interferon. Has anyone been in one of these trials or taken high dose Interferon? If so what kind of side effects did you…
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Very scared-please help. Stage II Melanoma
My fiancee had a mole on the middle of his chest removed and tested and it came back he had stage II melanoma. He's 35 and we have a two year old daughter together. He still has to see a specialist in ann arbor, michigan and i'm scared as to what they're going to do. How much skin are they going to take off? What's going…
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Melanoma Stage 3c Looking For Naturopathic Treatments
My husband has decided to go the non-chemical route for now. When you are in stage 3 your options are limited and he has decided to "wait and see" with the help of scans and check ups. I have asked that he also find a doctor/Naturopath and start getting his immune system as strong as possible. My questions to you: Has…
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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…
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expectations stage 4
Hi, My mom in law is at stage 4. She has started dacarbazine at moffit, every 3 weeks. Anyone have any experience and or advice for her/us as to what she can expect. She is 84 and lives in north fl. Thanks...
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Stage 4
Hi All, My mom in law starts chemo ( carboplatin?) tomorrow morning at Moffit hosp. She is stage 4 from her heel to bone,lung ,lymph nodes. She cannot do the trial drug till she tries the chemo first. Please send her your prayers and positive energy. Thank you all.. Hi all, Just found out that the chemo is not carboplatin.…
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Stage III Melanoma
Hi all, I was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma on June 3, 2010. Have had the mole removed from my back and lymph nodes on my right armpit removed and now on inter feron for the year. I'm 6 months into the inter feron and feel good somedays and really bad on other days. Any suggestion to get through the next 6 months. Deb
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Newly diagnosed.... lots of questons!!
I am new to the forum, and am looking for some answers! About a month ago my dermatologist biopsied 4 moles, and one was melanoma. She scheduled surgery right away and excised a larger area and sent it to the lab. When I was there for the surgery I pointed out another mole that was brown, with a darker mole inside on the…
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Leukine Or Intreferon
I have a choice to make... clinical trial options are A)Leukine for 1 year (14days on 14 days off) B) Interferon for 1 year (20 high doses, then decreasing doses for the next 11 months). If anyone has any insight on these please help!I have 4 kids (13, 7, 3 year old twins) and I'm suppose to start nursing school in July.
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Treatments for Brain Metastasis
Can anyone recommend a treatment besides whole brain radiation for diffuse disease in the brain? We just found out after being clear 6 months ago, this is for my wife who is only 33 years old. We've been on BRAF, and are looking at ipilimumab, but I don't yet how effective ipi is in the brain or if we will need to do whole…
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Treatment decisions for Stage III melanoma
My 21 year old daughter was diagnosed with melanoma of her ear in 9/08. In 12/09, she had a radical neck dissection with positive lymph nodes in her neck. We have been to 3 oncologists and I have done alot of research online. Her treatment options are Interferon along with possbily radiation to the neck for local control…
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Gauze Packing For An Open Wound
My husband, Bob, just spent 5 days in the hospital again last week due to a leg infection. He is stage 3c. Since his surgery on July 22nd to take out the melanoma tumor and all surrounding lymph nodes (18 that tested negated), the drain tube for lymphatic fluid in his leg was moved and replaced 3 times. His doctor tried to…
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cancer treatment center of america
anyone have experience with these hospitals
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cancer treatment center of america
anyone have experience with these hospitals
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New BCC diagnois
I had a questionable nodule biopsed on my chest and came back BCC..today had another scrapped also..awaiting results. Scheduled for mohs in 2 days. I know they say this type is very curable but I cant help being petrified. I know they say it rarely spreads, but how do you not worry. I cant believe this, am still in shock.…
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New treatment & Hope for Patients with advanced melanoma
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38854884/ns/health-cancer BOSTON — An experimental targeted cancer drug shrank advanced melanoma tumors in 81 percent of patients with the deadly and hard-to-treat cancer, doctors said Wednesday. The findings were part of an early phase study used to determine the best dose of the experimental…
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New diagnosis....how fast to move
I lost my brother to melanoma in 2007 2 years after diagnosis. It was in his fingertip and the dermatologist diagnosed granuloma without doing a biopsy and sent him to a hand surgeon who treated it with silver nitrate for 6 weeks! Anyway, now I have another relative who had a biopsy of a spot on her shin that she had to…
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IAT CLINIC
Did anyone has an experience with IAT CLINIC? I am desperate for a cure.............. Thank you in advance.......