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lentigos/skin cancer possibili...
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 I am a fair skinned 69 year old female. Have recently developed dry skin particularly on my arms, probably from bath soap.  At any rate, I have sligh...
012/05/07 Message Rating
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Recurrent Melanoma
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Please excuse my lack of terminology. My father had a Stage 3 melanoma removed from his foot 3 years ago, they removed his big toe and a portion of his foot as ...
212/03/07 Message Rating
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Treatments for Metastatic Mela...
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My 37 year old daughter is being treated for Metastatic Melanoma of the brain. The treatment consists of excision of the largest tumor, followed by radiation al...
612/03/07 Message Rating
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My sister and Father
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My sister had melanoma and she passed away in 1983 May 16thMy father had melanoma and passed away in 1985 May 14th had an awful time coping with one and then th...
111/28/07 Message Rating
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melanoma vaccine
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Has anyone heard about the melanoma vaccine? I'd like to get some more information on it.
211/28/07 Message Rating
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Adrenal gland - lung - tumor
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Hello all, my name is Daniel, i'm a 28 yr old male from Wellington, New Zealand. I have recently been told melanoma has spred into my adrenal gland - i have...
511/23/07 Message Rating
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Brain Metastasis Melanoma
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Hi. My Dad has brain mestastasis melanoma. He had the stereotactic radiation surgery (SRS) in August. He is also on chemo pills. Two months done, two more month...
111/16/07 Message Rating
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Temador or Carbo/Taxol...can a...
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My husband has Stage IV Mal. Melanoma...he has three tumors in his brain (he has had 3 gamma knife, craniotomy and full head radiation) and has two tumors ...
111/15/07 Message Rating
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Tremelimumab
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I recently read about a new drug, tremelimumab, in early trials.  Is anyone in this treatment program?  If so, would you mind sharing your thoughts ab...
811/14/07 Message Rating
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Level
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We received our shock yesterday and are so uninformed.  I am reading about Level IV.  We are scheduled for MD Anderson next week.   My husba...
711/10/07 Message Rating
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Should I do treatment?
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I figured I should try and poll as many opinions as possible...I recently had surgery to remove a melanoma, margins were clean, all scans were clean, sentinel n...
2311/07/07 Message Rating
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targetd treatment of melanoma ...
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my wife aged 29 has melanoma stage IV (for about a year now) and is taking sutent after micro array analysis (target now MPI) showed sutent as an active target....
111/05/07 Message Rating
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treatment
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My husband was diagnosed with melanoma in Aug 2007.  Original spot (a mole on his back that he had his whole life started to change) was 1.3 mm Breslo...
511/01/07 Message Rating
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HELP: husband won't talk to me...
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My husband had melanoma on his forearm last year.  He was sent to a dermatoligist, it was removed and biopsied.  The doctor had bandaged the area wher...
110/26/07 Message Rating
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Stage IV Diagnosis
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My friend, an otherwise very healthy 61 year old pilot, was diagnosed in March 2007 with Stage IV Melanoma.  He entered a clinical study and received sever...
310/25/07 Message Rating
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new to stage IV
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My 42 year old daughter has melanoma. It was 1st diagnosed in Jan. as a stage I, and now 9 mo. later is in stage IV. Her 1st PET scan after surgery to remove a ...
410/16/07 Message Rating
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mastisized brain melanoma
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My husband had an A typical cell mole removed from him side in mid June 2007, Within a week he had his first lymph node bioposy. It came back as Melanoma. Then ...
110/12/07 Message Rating
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Desmoplastic Neurotropic Spind...
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Hello out there --Is there anyone out there who has been diagnosed with desmoplastic neurotropic spindle cell melanoma?  My mother was diagnosed with this ...
610/12/07 Message Rating
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metastasized melanoma. What's...
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My son, an otherwise healthy male, was diagnosed with stage IV metastasized cancer six months ago.  The only major organ it has entered is the liver. ...
610/10/07 Message Rating
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Not sure how to cope
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Hi, I'm brand new on this site and just want to talk with people who have, or are, going through what I am.  I lost my wife July 22nd to Melanoma. ...
410/01/07 Message Rating
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Question about melanoma
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I have a relative who had a melanoma removed from her back.  It was rather deep but a long story short she was told ultimately that they had gotten it all....
209/22/07 Message Rating
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All new to me.
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I just had a mole removed this week that tested positive for melanoma.  I am returning to the dermotologist in 2 weeks to clear the surrounding area. ...
209/21/07 Message Rating
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Treatment Options for Stage II...
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HelloI am wondering if there is any advice for treatment options for stage III melanoma. I am 29 and in good health (minus of course, the cancer) and will be go...
309/19/07 Message Rating
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ipilimumab questions
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Does anyone here have any experience with ipilimumab?  My uncle is in a double blind study and is wondering if he is getting ipilimumab or the placebo.&nbs...
009/19/07 Message Rating
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Mucosal Melanoma
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I have become my father in law's patient advocate and have read almost all clinical trials for melanoma where mucosal melanoma isn't on the  '...
709/19/07 Rated by 1 members
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