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Hi everyone, I’ve just joined the forum and I must admit I am probably a little outside my comfort zone. I got diagnosed with stage 3B Malignant Melanoma in February. I’m currently recovering following my recent wide excision and feel like my whole...
Reading the pathology report following my lymph node dissection, it appears I am NRAS positive. This is a genetic mutation that is present 15-20% of the time in melanoma. This has not been mentioned by my oncologist, yet it is potentially bad news if...
Hello all. Last year I had treatment for breast cancer. Grade 3, lymph nodes clear and 27mm tumour. Lumpectomy, OncotypeDX of 1 followed by 9 rounds of radiotherapy. I’m also taking meds to eradicate oestrogen. On the 7th March my hairdresser noticed...
Hi I'm new to the group. My partner and I have not long found out that his mum has melanoma. The lymph node have gone to her lungs lives kidneys spleen and her brain she is 88 years old and she doesn't want any treatment she gets very emotional anxious...
Hello I had a punch biopsy on Friday and was told that the results would be available in 8-12weeks which seems a very long time to wait.If I have melanoma would this long wait present considerable risk and do the biopsies ever show anything other than...
Hi everyone, I haven't posted on here in a while, but I wanted to give an update on my mum. Her melanoma progressed to stage 4 last autumn and in October she was given three to six months to live if treatment didn't work. We found out she had three...
Hi im louise age 41. I was dignosed with eye Eye cancer ocular melanoma in 2020 then after lockdown of covid i went back it had got bigger and they decided to give me proton beam radiophrapy treatment in liverpool. Which starts 1st april to 5th april...
Hi I was Dx in July with Stage 4 Melanoma in my right breast tissue and also second biopsy revealed stage one her2 positive breast cancer. I am looking for others who have had melanoma in the breast or both Brest cancer and melanoma at the same time...
I am on Deb & Tram for stage 3 Melanoma. 10 months in to treatment. 18 months since initial Melanoma was removed. I struggled emotionally having to wait 6 months between initial removal and stage 3 diagnosis. But I feel lucky that side effects of treatment...
I'm new to the group my husband has just been diagnosed with metastatic melanoma in his liver and bones. He had a neck dissection 18 months ago to remove a secondary melanoma (he has an unknown Primary) that went well and he was clear from October 22...
