Hello everyone hope you are all coping well. Today I had the best news, I got the all clear!!!!’ Even the bugger of a lymph node that went missing has come back negative. It’s been the toughest 7 months and I know I’m sorted really quickly compared to...
Hello, I posted here on Friday when I had just found out that my dad has stage 4 melanoma. He now has it in his saliva gland, neck node, rib, stomach, lung and kidney gland and is going to be starting immunotherapy (opdivo and yervoy). I was just...
Hello everyone. My partner continues to lose weight from his side effects from Pembro. He is on his second anti nausea medication and it helps only slightly. Has anyone else here been on Pembro while on thyroid block and replace drugs at the same time...
Hi I have had my latest information through and I can't have surgery but have been accepted for Sabr, I am also Braf mutant or mutation I can't remember what my nurse said when she called me, I was also in a shop so didn't ask any questions, What does...
Hello, I’m new here. Just wondering if anyone has had experience of reoccurrence of their melanoma under their surgical scar and what were their symptoms? Or is it normal to have some sensations, grisly bits or bumps, in your scar a few months after...
I had my WLE on the 20th December, and post-op wound clinic on the 30th, I’ve received two additional appointments through and a little concerned if this is normal or if it’s a sign that additional treatment is required. The additional appointments are...
My partners blood results have came back after a month of treatment, has now been told to stop treatment as white cells low. He had an episode of high temperature, shivering was told to go A&E where he was treated very quickly thankfully and home same...
My fiancé was doing really well after 2 months on Dab and Tram, and his first scan showed the tumours in his lung and liver had gone, and the tumour in a lymph node in his chest had reduced. Just after he started getting a cough, then the shivering and...
Good afternoon everyone, I had my stitches out yesterday from my mole excision. Bizarrely I felt comforted when the nurse commented how amazingly the wound had healed with stitches embedded in the skin! This morning I had the phone call with the results...
Hi all, I have been meaning to post for a while now but have waited until today after having an excisional biopsy for a referral that was made last September. I have had a mole for around or over ten years now that changed it's 'architecture drastically...
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