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Hello could anyone tell me what treatment options have been offered after complete axillery resection of a metastatic melanoma?
My 51 year old husband was first diagnosed with melanoma 5 1/2 years ago when we found a mole on his scalp. He had a sentinel node biopsy at that time and it came back clear. 6 months later it metastasized to 3 lymph nodes. He was on keytruda for 18 months...
I was diagnosed with a T2a melanoma at the start of this year and had a WLE, skin graft and sentinel lymph biopsy at the beginning of Feb. This was done at a different hospital, as mine does not offer plastic surgery. My hospital discharge notes said...
Hello I am just wandering what treatment options people have been offered at this staging?
Hello, I am new to the community. About two years ago I was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to my sentinel lymph node but which was then considered fully treated. I realise now that I have highly stressed in the years since and have become a much...
Hello everyone, I had a WLE on the 26th Feb for Pt1a on my shoulder. A few days after the op I received a letter saying a telephone consultation had been booked for the 17th April. At this stage the biopsy wouldn’t of been done but the telephone consultation...
Hi, I have recently had a stage 1 melanoma wide excision and am waiting on results. I have been on a 5 day course of antibiotics as the wound was infected at the stitches site. yesterday I suddenly started feeling dizzy and my neck and head was hurting...
Hi All, Currently on watch and wait as they are too tiny to see any patterns under the Derma scope. Melanoma removed about 2 yrs ago. Just wondering if anyone else had experienced the same
Anyone struggling with support since diagnosis, waiting to go hospital for WLE and lymph node to be taken for testing, got told I have melanoma after a biopsy in February, worried, scared!!
Hello everyone, my partner has melanoma. CT scans came back clear of spreading after numerously chasing up the results. He had a pre op appointment 5 weeks ago, and we've heard nothing! He's chased it up a couple of times, and all tbey say if there's...
