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I Do Have Melanoma

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Subject: RE: I do have melanoma
Date: 07/29/2008

I have a story for you.  I was diagnosed with melanoma in 1970, I was 21 years of age.  My first cousin died one year prior to my diagnosis of melanoma.  I was in the hospital for 2 weeks and underwent extensive surgery which required a large graft on my right arm and the removal of over 30 lymph nodes which were clear by the way.  Well the next five years or so I was the routine patient, and them I decided to have a child.  At that time they believed that the hormonal changes during pregnancy could cause it to come back but after thoughtfull consideration and a 5 year window between diagnosis I had my first daughter, 7 yrs. later a second.  All this time I was a melanoma advocate and survivor.  Then in 2003 I was diagnosed with breast cancer.  At the same time I had a second melanoma in-situ on my chest in an area of radiation so I thought.  Well, in 2004 I found out that not only was the melanoma in-situ on my chest not a melanoma but reather a severely dysplastic nevus (which did have the potential to turn) but the one back in 1970 was reversed to be a spitz nevus (benign).  Yes, they still had the slides.  You can imagine the emotional roller coaster I was on.  In 2007 I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.  So I understand what you say about living each day.  Life gives us some crazy twists.  For so many years I lived as a cancer patient and when I found out I did not have that cancer I had already been diagnosed with BC.  So, you can say I have been living with it for over 30 years.  I'm happy to hear that you are a true melanoma survivor.  Again, best to you.

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