My sister was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma in December 2022 after having what she was told was a cyst removed from her neck but was actually metastatic melanoma. It was named stage 4 as was a bit in her lung and her thigh but brain scan was clear.. She started immunotherapy which she had a few side effects such as colitis and had to be put on steroids but then carried on with treatment which has been working and the bit in her thigh has gone and in the lung reduced.
It was her birthday on Monday (43) and she was all happy and fine, the day after she had headache and was vomiting and was taken to A&E where she had a CT scan and a MRI which showed multiple lesions on the brain and multiple small bleeds on the brain. She’s very weak and tired now.
I am devastated for her and very scared. She has twin teenage girls age 13 and when diagnosed she said she’d be happy with 10 years as teenage girls need their mum and now this happened so quickly out of no where and I’m wondering when it gets to this point what can be done? She has been so well you wouldn’t even know she had cancer and now this.
what is the prognosis for someone with multiple brain lesions and is there treatment available?