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Widespread Metastatic Melanoma

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Subject: Widespread Metastatic Melanoma
Date: 01/03/2007
My 59 yr old daddy has Metastatic Melanoma. After initial mole removal from shoulder in April, followed by nodular tumor removal in June, PET and CT showed cancer had moved to the liver and nowhere else. After three full cycles of chemo, (7hrs a day four days a week with 21 day break) new PET/CT showed widespread to skin, blood, lymph and bones down the right side, one of the liver tumors the size of grapefruit with multiple other tumors in the liver. Not in brain yet. Yesterday the pain moved to the left side, so hospice suggests spread as well as a large tumor now growing in his armpit. We stopped chemo in October since he nearly died from it (sleeping 23 hrs a day, developed blood clot and lost too much weight) He is now with Hospice. They have him on 120 mg of morphine twice a day with subl. in between, Dexameta something or other, Lorazapam, and today Elavil was added. The melanomas are popping out all over his face and head, litterally eating him alive from the outside in, he's so sad and so tired of waiting for the relief of death. He's tired of the pills, its no wonder he isn't hungry, by the time he eats all the pills he's full. There has to be some alternative medicine we can try to help slow down the spread or kill the nodules. He's on oxygen at night which was helping to clear his mind and give him energy, but now that the pain is spreading he is getting weaker. I don't know how much time we have left, but I'm desperate for something natural to try. Please help me to help him....

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