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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.......
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Malignant Melanoma in Lung
My brother was just diagnosed with Malignant Melanoma in his lung. The only other things I know are that they found the source of the cancer (it was on top of his head) and that there are little spots on his brain. From my understanding, he will have radiation therapy to hopefully remove the spotting on his brain, but the…
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No Health Insurance
Hi everyone! Well here it goes..... I decided to go to a dermatologist after my cousin, age 44, died of melanoma on April 16th of this year. I saw her boys in the funeral receiving line and I didn't want that to be my 3 boys, so I made an appointment to have my body checked BC I am fair skinned with lots of freckles. They…
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still trying to survive...
My husband died of Melanoma Cancer on his face. A dream marriage of 28 years and can't believe it is all gone. Getting promoted soon and I need my job to keep my mind busy...
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im feeling very selfish.
im new on this site and i came on it to try talk to people who lost there mums as a child but after reading so may of peoples problems and fears im starting to feel like i dont have a problem compaired to everyone elce so i should just deal with what happend to me.
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i lost my mum at the age of six.
i am now 31 and my mum died at the age of 32 when i was only six years old, this is the first time iv realy wanted to share my exspirence with people who have lost loved ones, in life so far iv not meet anyone who lost ther mun as a chiled and would like to hear how other people cope or how it has effected them in there…
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melanoma spreading to other lymphnodes
So I'm 20 yrs old and have a wonderful husband and beautiful baby. I was diagnoised in Jan. 2010 with Stage 3c melanoma the cancer was found on my leg,and in my lymphnodes in my right groin. I had all lymphnodes removed in my right groin and after fighting infections finally managed to heal properly. I am on Interferon…
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Skin cancer my secondary cancer now/husband deserted me
So I started by getting thyroid cancer, then during my treatment or at the end of it my husband cheated on me. In the midst of this news I got skin cancer. I am deeply depressed now, he says this to me "you would be sick whether you were with me or not" I wish I hadn't lived almost, I will have a lifetime of treatments,…
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Dr. sent slides for "special staining"??????
Okay..... I am still worried about my melanoma!! My dermatologist removed my melanoma and biopsied another mole at the same time... It has been about 10 days. I got a call from the nurse and she said that the doctor sent my slides out for "special staining" What does that mean??? It doesn't sound good to me! Anybody have…
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Melanoma drug cuts death risk in major trial
Experimental treatment raises hopes of reversing advanced cases Progress in cancer treatment usually creeps forward. While more people are living longer with more kinds of cancer than ever, the better treatments are often incremental improvements. But every five or 10 years a new medication arrives that totally shifts the…
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Interferon recall ?
First let me say hello to all, and also say I wish I had known about this site while I was taking my treatments. I was wondering if anyone had any more information on the interferon recall ??? I have tried every avenue I can think of to get some info, with no results. All they have told me is.... they don't know what the…
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BCC
Hi new to this site. I'm on the breast cancer site, but had a BCC removed from my R neck. The buggar sat right on my cartoid. Surgeon said all marins clear. This is the second time it was removed. The first one the primary Dr. removed it. So he/ they never consulted me. Jump ahead one year, breast cancer, and he ( surgeon…