Malignant Melanoma in Lung
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Melanoma in Lung
Often times they do surgery on the lung after radiation to shrink the tumor. I believe it all depends where in the lung the tumor is. I am hoping you brother is with a melanoma specialist, if he is not please encourage him to get one immediately. There are many trials out there for Stage 4 , some are very promising. If you want to do more research, check out what is referred to as IPI, I can't get the full name but I suspect you'll get plenty of hits with that. It seems to be the most promising.
For Mel, it is usually a different type of Bio-Chemo cocktail as Mel does not respond to traditional Chemo very well. It does sound like a fairly aggressive approach, and the problem is many trials are not open until you fail the traditional approach.
Good luck to you and your brother. He can kick it, but it'll be a tough road.0 -
Treatmentwashoegal said:Melanoma in Lung
Often times they do surgery on the lung after radiation to shrink the tumor. I believe it all depends where in the lung the tumor is. I am hoping you brother is with a melanoma specialist, if he is not please encourage him to get one immediately. There are many trials out there for Stage 4 , some are very promising. If you want to do more research, check out what is referred to as IPI, I can't get the full name but I suspect you'll get plenty of hits with that. It seems to be the most promising.
For Mel, it is usually a different type of Bio-Chemo cocktail as Mel does not respond to traditional Chemo very well. It does sound like a fairly aggressive approach, and the problem is many trials are not open until you fail the traditional approach.
Good luck to you and your brother. He can kick it, but it'll be a tough road.
Thanks for your information. He saw a skin doctor who referred him to an oncologist. Not sure if they specialize in Mel but I will check. As for treatment, I'm pretty sure he is got two different types at his first chemo treatment. Once again, thank you for your insight.0
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