Melanoma/Skin cancer

Share your personal experience with melanoma or skin cancer. Discuss your treatments, share information you've learned along the way, and discuss strategies for screening and prevention.

Discussions

supporting loved ones in treatment

• By wenatchee · New reply April 7, 2013
• 1 reply
• Stage 4 melanoma is anyone out there willing to share there story and any medication that has worked ...

temodar and melanoma

• By betty57 · New reply January 17, 2011
• 3 replies
• does anyone have experience with temodar and its side effects ...

starting chemo

• By anniepans · New reply October 3, 2010
• 2 replies
• Hi, my husband has been diagnosed with metastatic melanoma in the lungs. He has had 2 surgeries but these nodules keep popping up. Chemo is tomorrow and he is going to be on the following for 3 mths ...

Melanoma & HIV

• By scorpiocub · Posted August 12, 2010
• 0 replies
• I need some help to make a decision. I was diagnosed with HIV over 5 years ago and have been doing fine. May 2009 I was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma and had tumors removed from my neck and under ...

Melanoma & HIV

• By scorpiocub · Posted August 11, 2010
• 0 replies
• I need some help to make a decision. I was diagnosed with HIV over 5 years ago and have been doing fine. May 2009 I was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma and had tumors removed from my neck and under ...

Melanoma and radiation

• By snorring · New reply June 8, 2010
• 5 replies
• I am looking to discuss the success of radiation on melanoma that has been been surgically removed and has not spread anywhere. I have conflicting information about the success of radiation that it may ...

metastatic melanoma

• By karenp52 · New reply April 22, 2010
• 20 replies
• Hi, My husband was recently diagnosed with metastatic melanoma and was put on Temodar 100mg twice a day. Has anyone been on Temodar with good results. I know this melanoma is hard to treat and not a good ...

temodar and melanoma

• By bumbach · New reply January 20, 2010
• 10 replies
• has anyone had any results with temodar? Do you take only it or in conjunction with another drug? I have just started and am so nervous! I was diagnosed with melanoma in 2004 and it has now spread and ...

Flu Shots

• By LynnLuc (Inactive) · New reply November 15, 2009
• 8 replies
• Just wondering if I should get the H1N1 flu shot in between monthly chemo treatments until I get into the clinicial trial...is it safe for cancer patients to take this and the seasonal flu shots ...

clinical trials...

• By LynnLuc (Inactive) · Posted July 14, 2009
• 0 replies
• I have stage IV Melanoma and was wondering if anyone has heard about the Phase 2 trial of PLX4032 will open. Following is the header of an article.."PLX4032 is a novel, oral drug that selectively targets ...

New member

• By Clinty · New reply January 7, 2009
• 12 replies
• Hello all. My name is Clinty. I don't have cancer but my mother does and it's tearing me apart. She has metastatic melanoma. Is there anyone out there with the same thing? I could really use some advice ...