I have just recently lost my mother to Melanoma. My mother was dx in January of 2007 and thought by removing the initial lesion she was cancer free. In March she had a small stroke and had been left with left arm weakness. She proceeded to go to physical therapy and had regained most of her feeling back into her arm. On April 16th she went back to the oncologist and was given a clean bill of health for the Melanoma. On May 25th she had a huge subarachnoid hemmorage and 4 days later me and my family were told that the cancer had spread to her brain and they told us to contact Hospice. The local hospital said there was nothing more they could do for her. We were wrought with confusion as to how this could have happened to her because they said she was cancer free. The Hospice doctor came in checked her for 5 minutes gave her 7-14 days and left the ICU room. The next day we went to see her and she had been moved to the Hospice floor and my family and I were shocked at the behavior of the doctor because at that point we had not even signed the papers for Hospice. Due to that whole episode we took my mother home and it seemed for a few weeks she was getting better from the stroke and we went back to the original hospital that took of her in January and they did a CT/MRI and said that the cancer was everywhere in her body. That was July 7th and on July 30th she developed what we think was an infection in her kungs and she passed away. We are so shocked and still very confused about what has happened to our mother. We have all prayed that she would not suffer and all believe that she passed peacefully. But we also all still have questions as to how they could have missed all of this....We all hurt and are deeply concerned about this kind of thing happening to another unsuspecting family.