my husband was dg. with anal melanoma last feb.06 in april he had resectioning abdoimal surgury a stoma, they send him home and told him to wait no other treatment because it usu. don't help . he was having pains in his side at 6 mo. checkup and a pet scan revealed nodules in his lungs .now on feb. 8th we go back to ann arber for options . he said he is refusing treatment of any more majors surgury, from everything i have read which is not a lot because most doctors have never heard of anal malanoma maybe 500 cases reported nothing shows any promise. i do try to keep faith and i also try to be strong for my husband who really seems to be ok. i dont want him to go thought more surgurys if they dont help. he has already been though a major one and it was not fun, but on the other hand what if by some miracle it would help, because it is so rare the information is limited with the average life span at 15 months.i do pray for god to give us all strenght because this is bad stuff and i do believe the mind can help heal if we keep the faith