Morning All
Derek here, was diagnosed with stage 3 skin cancer just before Christmas last year, had a melanoma on my leg removed and then trimmed. Started immunotherapy. Wife found a lump on my back had 2 operations to sort that. Unfortunately it started to grow back and started having chest pains. Spoke to the consultant yesterday and it has decided to move to my lungs. Will start heavy duty immunotherapy soon. Onwards and upwards, lets all beat this rubbish C word!!
Hi DerekS and a very warm welcome to the online community which I hope you'll find is both an informative and supportive place to be.
I’m Anne, one of the Community Champions here on the Online Community, and I was diagnosed and treated for melanoma 10 years ago now.
The online community is divided into different support groups so I'm going to recommend that you join us over in the melanoma group as you'll then connect directly with others who have the same type of cancer as you and are having immunotherapy.
To join, just click on the link I've created and, once you've joined, you can start a new post in the same way as you did here and join in with existing conversations by clicking on 'reply'.
It would be great if you could put something about your diagnosis and treatment into your profile as it really helps others when replying to you and also when looking for someone on a similar pathway. It also means that you don't have to keep repeating yourself. To do this click on your username and then select 'Profile'. You can amend it at any time and if you're not sure what to write you can take a look at mine by clicking on my username.
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