Soulmate33
My dad was diagnosed with skin cancer stage 4 in January 2016. At that time it had not spread to any other parts of his body. In January 2019 we found that it had progressed to lungs, adrenal glands and there were nodules in the brain. We were told that chemotherapy was not an option. But his case would be put in front of a multidisciplinary panel to see if he would be eligible for immune therapy. I am pleased to confirm that he was accepted by the Beatson. He had been on treatment since 1st April every 4 weeks. So far all scan have showed that tumours are shrinking, the nodules in the brain have disappeared. The staff at the Beatson are fantastic, caring and interested. We have our fingers crossed for the future, my dad is 83 and doing well on his treatment, with few side effects ( a severe itch). Hope this gives other families hope. But my mother does not want to deal with the diagnosis. So I have now become the parent and thus is a very hard situation as my father was a very independent and strong person.
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I'm presuming that as you've said that your dad's skin cancer has spread to other areas of his body that he's been diagnosed with melanoma. If I've got that right you might like to join us over in the melanoma group as there are people there with Stage 4 melanoma who you could share experiences with and get support.
If you'd like to join us just click on the link I've created and then choose 'join this group' on the page that opens. You can then introduce yourself or post a question after selecting 'start a discussion' and join in with existing conversations by clicking on 'reply'.
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