Born in 1967 in Edinburgh, Scotland Moved to Florida in 2000 Prostate cancer 2017, had a robotic prostatectomy All clear since Parkinsons Disease 2019. Living with it 8 Facial Basal cell removed via the Mohs Surgery over the last 3 years Currently...
Melanoma on lymph node. I am due to have my second double dose of immunotherapy next Tuesday. My specialist has just called to say my levels of Troponine are pretty high, and was I experiencing alot of fatigue. I am not, which I told him. Is this going...
Hello everyone. I have a stage 3 malignant melanoma on a lymph gland in my pelvic area .I started immunotherapy two weeks ago, a double dose. I have another next week, then surgery scheduled for early January. I have a fair understanding, but not many...
Hi everyone. I’ve been reading through your experiences and want to be included so I can help support my Mum. She’s not really tech savvy and has asked me to do this. Her original melanoma on her lower left leg was dealt with by surgery and radiotherapy...
hello, I’m new to the group. I have recently be diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma in my small intestine and lung and am due to start immunotherapy in 10 days. Just wondering how people have found immunotherapy, side effects etc x
Hi everyone, I have just joined tonight. I have stage 2 melanoma and I had my WLE and SLNB back at the end of October. I get my results from the biopsy tomorrow and I just feel so nervous. My surgeon had said to me that he thinks it will more than likely...
hi my name is stuart i was told i had lentigo maligna melanoma i had to have a biopsy on my left cheek on my face it turned out it was cancer and they needed to operate on it ,so i went to see plastic surgeon and he said its quite big so will have to...
Hi All. I'm new to this group and want to share my story. I was diagnosed with stage 3 melenoma end of January this year. I had 3 lumps that needed surgery. One on my hip, buttock and one inside my pelvis. I had surgery March this year to remove...
Hi I'm new to the forum. I had surgery Monday to remove a possible melanoma and I am waiting for the results. I have had the thing on my back for well over 15 years I didn't give it any thought or have been worried about it. For some reason I asked my...
Hello All, I'm a sometime poster on the Prostate Cancer board. My husband was diagnosed with terminal, but treatable Prostate Cancer last December, and has had chemotherapy and is currently having hormone therapy. It's all going well, he is fit...
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