First off I don’t know if I have melanoma yet I’m waiting for my first appointment with specialists but I have to say the way my two moles have changed to very dark & borders are blurry and spread slightly I am not feeling confident of it being nothing...
Hi all i am into my 2nd round of Nivolumab and have recently suffered from Uveitis. This came on very suddenly with pain and inflammation in one eye followed by blurred vision and a lot of discomfort. After intensive tests at the acute eye clinic...
I had my first infusion in mid July but an operation meant that the next dose had to be postponed. I’m restarting in late September and, based on the reaction to the first dose, diarrhea and colitis are likely to be the first adverse events to show up...
After having WLE and lymph node biopsy (which was positive) in March this year. Ct scan following this and needle biopsy showed enlarged lymph node and another positive for melanoma. This was beginning of June. I then waited 6 weeks for a surgery date...
Hi, I haven’t been in here for a while. I was diagnosed with a stage 2a in Sept 2020 and was lucky to have a clear SLNB. Unfortunately I then had a melanoma in situ in Sept 2021 so I often find myself expecting more to come and not feeling very confident...
Hello Looking for a bit of insight, and reaching out I had a follow up WLE with skin graft back in February on my shin.Healing wasn’t great but I was finally discharged from the dressing clinic at the end of June. Other than the new wardrobe of...
Good evening, I haven’t been on here for a couple weeks due to rounds of scans, tests and biopsies. I found out last week that I not only have Stage 4 aggressive melanoma I also have secondary stage 3 lymphoma! To be honest I’m lucky it has only travelled...
Hello, I’m new here and was diagnosed with Melanoma 2 months ago. I’m 32 years old and 3 weeks ago I had a wide excision and lymph node biopsy. Still waiting for the results. I’m currently really struggling with how I’m going to adapt to life with Melanoma...
Hi everyone, I hope you don't mind me posting here this afternoon, my name is Rachel and I work as part of the Community team here at Macmillan. I wanted to get in touch this afternoon to let you know about our Cancer Information Team's latest blog...
Hello last year (may 2021) was diagnosed with stage 2 melanoma on my left buttock, i had wider excision op to remove this (july 2021) and everything came back clear as well as the biopsy. However the past week i have been having unexplained pain in the...
