Living with Melanoma - An Ongoing Journey

  • Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy – should I or shouldn’t I? Yes you should!

    A little bit of background first. My melanoma started on my upper leg just above my knee, on pretty much the line where my shorts would end. I was diagnosed on 1st November 2017, some months after earlier wrong diagnoses, but that’s another story for another blog post. The tumour was removed in the same month and I was told a wide area excision would be needed after some time.

    I was asked to consider a Sentinel…

  • When you find yourself in a position you could never conceive, what happens next?

    This is a question I asked myself throughout my journey with melanoma, but particularly at the start of 2019 as I was half way through my immunotherapy course of ipilimumab and nivolumab combination infusions.

    I recently finished that series of four combination infusions and I've come through it pretty unscathed. I have some very good results and I have now commenced on a single drug infusion programme with Nivolumab administered…