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Chemo Temador and Thalidomide ...
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Is anyone taking Temador and Thalidomide for melanoma treatment and if so, how is it treating you. Are you experiencing nausea, grogginess, etc. I seem to hav...
305/15/08 Message Rating
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Mucosal Melanoma - anyone surv...
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I have a sister with mucosal melanoma. Diagnosed in 2005. Tumor removed in 2006 with an eye and 1/2 her palate.  She has had chemo and radiation and s...
205/15/08 Message Rating
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My Mother Was Just Diagnosed
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For the past month my mother was doing Carac treatment on her face.  In the past she has had various basel cells removed and our family has history of Mela...
205/10/08 Message Rating
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Dr's. and Treatment Options
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As I read through the messages, I notice Dr. Kevin Kim at MDACC. I myself starting seeing Dr. Kevin Kim along with Dr. Jeff Myers Ent surgeorn - Dept Head. I ca...
105/08/08 Message Rating
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Not sure if Chemo is working ?
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Hi Everyone,This is my first posting but felt compelled to put my feelings into a message board for feedback as my wife Jane is battling with Stage 4 Malignant ...
305/05/08 Message Rating
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confused
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Hi,I was just wondering if someone could help answer a couple of questions. My name is Brittany and I am 27 years old. I do not have melanoma, but am afraid I p...
705/05/08 Message Rating
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Pregnant with Melanoma
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Hello,My daughter is 7 months pregnant and just had a small spot removed from her leg.  The Dermatologist believes it is Melanoma, though she will not know...
305/03/08 Message Rating
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NEOPLAS
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has anyone tried NEOPLAS IN TENN
005/03/08 Message Rating
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Temadur Treatment
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My mother in law has stage IV melanoma. It just keeps appearing at different places in her body. The last PET scan showed a fading patch on the chest wall. She ...
005/02/08 Message Rating
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weeping scar tissue?
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Hello, My husband was diagnosed with stage 1 melanoma 4 years ago and surgery was performed (on his arm) as well as a sentinal node biopsy...nothing spread.&nbs...
304/29/08 Message Rating
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insurance will not cover surge...
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Hi,I have just been diagnosed with melanoma.The dr went very deep to remove a moe and said i needed surgery.I was all set tohave it when my insurance company de...
604/27/08 Message Rating
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advice
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I am writing this to get some feedback on my upcoming, first visit to an Oncologist. I had a melanoma in situ in 2005 and a recurrence on 2006. Plastic surgery ...
804/24/08 Message Rating
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diagnosis option / question
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I Just had a second melanoma removed last week. (First was 16yrs. ago.) This one was .95 mm thick and derm guy said stage "1-B on the cusp of  1mm pro...
704/23/08 Message Rating
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Help with prognosis and sugges...
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My dad was diagnosed two months ago with stage IV melanoma metastasized to the brain. He was on Temodar and whole brain raditation and given Decadron to control...
004/18/08 Message Rating
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Temodar treatment
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My husband was diagnosed in 2005 and has been trying temodar now for his fourth cycle.  During his third cycle they did tomotherapy along with the Temodar ...
004/17/08 Message Rating
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News with labs
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I had posted yesterday but forgot to add that I had a negative CXR and LDH levels were normal.  They just palpated my lymph nodes and did a biobsy and now ...
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LOOKING FOR ADVICE
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I recently found out that my 22yr old sister's melanoma has spread to her brain and liver. She had a mole that the family was concerned about. She found out...
204/16/08 Message Rating
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new and seeking advice
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Hey! I am very new to this just diagnosed in April.  Breslow 0.7mm and Clark's 3.  I am scared to death.  I have twin daughters who are 16 mo...
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Stage 3
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I am new to this board, but not new to Melanoma.  I had my first run in with this monster back in July 2005.  A mole on my left buttock/thigh area.&nb...
204/15/08 Message Rating
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susp melanoma in scar tissue
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hi, i was 1st diagnosised with stage 1 melanoma on my thigh in 2000. i had a melanoma insitu on my face in 2004 and now( 2008) have had a biopsy in th...
104/05/08 Message Rating
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Mucosal Melanoma
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I was diagnosed with Melanoma in 2004 stage 3/4 with the cancer in my lmph glands in my neck.  I received a dissection of the neck and also 4 weeks of bio ...
103/25/08 Message Rating
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clarks stage 4
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My father was diagnosed with Clarks Stage 4 melanoma last week.  We are just starting the process and I have been reading a lot about it.  I read some...
703/18/08 Message Rating
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metastatic melanoma Scans are...
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First thing is get to the NIH National Institutes of Health. Immunotherapy is the big thing, IL-2 , also CTL-a4 (MDX)  The chemo for this and the name...
203/17/08 Message Rating
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No Diagnosis Yet
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My daughter has had several moles excised, but they have been unable to confirm malignancy.  Her doctor told her that, by law she couldn't say she has ...
503/11/08 Message Rating
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Not Sure What to Ask Dr.
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In January of '06 I had a MM removed from my right breast.  It came back as Clarks Level II and Breslow thickness of 0.3.  They did an excision of...
103/10/08 Message Rating
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