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Stage Iv Melanoma..Is There Any Other Hope?

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Subject: Stage IV Melanoma..is there any other hope?
Date: 08/28/2007

My husband and I feel like we have been backed into a box medically speaking and have only our faith keeping us strong, Dr's aren't giving us any options....is there anything else out there that anyone could recommend to treat my husbands advanced metastazed brain tumors??  Our story....  My husband had a malignant mel removed from his back in 97..with regular 6m checkups..in Oct 06 he developed a lump under his left arm...turns out that was maliginant mel and it travelled to his brain...since Oct 06 he has had a craniotomy to remove the one tumor, lymph node removal, went down to Bahamas to get a cancer vaccine, full head radiation, and two gamma knife radiation for more tumors in the brain...he now has two spots in his liver...the Dr's (yale and sloan kettering) don't have much more to offer for his brain tumors..they say more surgery or radiation would diminish his quality of life, he was on temador but the disease looks to be progressing in his brain and dilantin for seizures.  He is exhausted, blurred vision, in pain at times, loses his words and a very weak from the high levels of decadron he has been on since January but he still can enjoy our time together and our children, 16, 15 and 2. I just don't know what to expect next and we are scared. 

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