Hi all. My partner is on Dab & Tram since 1sr December 2021. Since taking he has had shivers, rigors high temperatures, low temperatures aching joints bad skin ( like it’s been sandpapered) has had to stop the course each month about 12 days in. His bloods...
Have returned from alottment to find 3 missed calls from my oncology team. Had usual three monthly scans last week. Anxiety levels raised!
Hi all, I'm new here, maybe someone is going through the same thing as me and may have some advice. In Dec 2019 I found my first lump in my left thigh, after a biopsy it was found to be a metastasis Melanoma stage 4. It was removed Jan 2020, then I...
Hi all, I can’t believe I’m here I’m 35 and my husband noticed a mark on my jawline. I’m fair, ginger and freckly but this was totally new. Thought it maybe a bruise to start as browny red. It’s like a patch of red/brown underneath some freckles but...
I have a 2a melanoma with a WLE & SLNB at a date TBA. The melanoma I had removed was nothing like a brown mole one. It was bright red and I only really thought about getting it checked out because it bled a lot when I caught it shaving. I find myself...
Hi everyone - my husband had just been advised to stop his dabrafenib and tramatnib targettted treatment after he came out in lots of red skin lesions all around his trunk. He’s stage 3B and has had a WLE and one lymph node removed. He’s been on D&T...
Hullo. I am rather nervous about writing, but have been encouraged to do so. I have a melanoma on my scalp. The Registrar said that it would be excised 21/2cms all round, with the possibility of further surgery. He said that local anaesthetic was the...
Hi Just got results from my first scans Pembro has not yet shown any effect, tumour in groin and now liver has got worse. Due for my 6th 3 weekly shot on Monday. Feel gutted that it has not worked. Any positive experiences out there where pembo did...
Hi All, I just wanted to post an update on my journey as an encouragement to others as I know it helped me in those dark places just after diagnosis. I’ve had a near 7 year journey with this disease from the prime being misdiagnosed then finally removed...
Hi. My husbands had he's immunotherapy permanently stopped due to it causing grade 3/4 colitis as anyone ever experienced this?
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