Peg-Interferon

Has anyone heard of peg-interferon? I am concidering a test trial for stage 3 melanoma. All of the info is so CONFUSING. Please let me knoe

Thanks 

On 4/20/2007 Qualitytv wrote:

Has anyone heard of peg-interferon? I am concidering a test trial for stage 3 melanoma. All of the info is so CONFUSING. Please let me knoe

Thanks 

interferon is still the only FDA approved adjuvant treatment for stage 3 melanoma.  Did you have surgery already?  Normally this would be daily but the PEG form is long acting so it would be weekly I believe,  for a year.  Interferon can reduce recurrance by 10-15%.

Thanks for the info. I did have surgery(both sentinel lymph node biopsy and total lymph node dissection) I had microscopic amounts in two sentinel nodes and nothing in the rest. I was concidering peg-interferon because the side effect are supposed to be much less than regular interferon. It also is only one injection a week.They don't know if it's as effective as regular interferon.

I just wanted to know if anyone had good results with it.

Thanks again