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 node biopsy was clean. The melanoma was desmoplastic, which is a rare form -- they generally grow very deep but don't spread very often. But, it was definitely deep: 8 mm.
The surgeon did not feel that I needed to proceed with interfeuron treatments, because the benefits would be slim. My oncologist does seem to feel that I should do treatment...It seems to make a 3-5% reduction in recurrence, which does not seem huge to me. I'm questioning whether treatment is worth it, considering the side effects and the turmoil it would cause (especially because even going through surgery and everything, I never felt sickly or like someone with a disease, which would certainly not be the case under treatment) but don't want to be greedy seeing as how fortunate things have turned out so far.
Anybody have thoughts on this? I appreciate it.