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There is hope!
- By plwherry · New reply February 7, 2010
- Journal · 3 replies
- My husband is dealing with his third round of melanoma in 31/2 yrs. He is currently in a clinical trial having to do with gene therapy and his CT Scans have shown that the tumors have continued to shrink ...
Clinical trial
- By LynnLuc · New reply February 4, 2010
- Journal · 2 replies
- I am leaving for Seattle in the morning for my clinical trial. I am excited even though its only to take my T cells and then wait and wait ...which will seem like forever to grow mass amounts...at least ...
Orchestration of an Immune Response Unrehearsed!
- By jimmy_B · Posted February 4, 2010
- Journal · 0 replies
- February 4 is World Cancer Day—a global day of awareness created by the International Union Against Cancer. With cancer set to become the #1 killer in the world this year, the day brings us together ...
Melanoma that spread to lungs
- By BKS · New reply February 3, 2010
- Journal · 11 replies
- I went to Dr. in 2005 with a lump on my head. I was told it was nothing-a sebacios cyst- and not to worry about it. To shorten the story after many Dr. appts. I finally went to a dermatologist and in ...
melanoma
- By maryalyce · New reply February 2, 2010
- Discussion in Living with skin cancer · 31 replies
- Does anyone reading this web site have melanoma? Mary Alyce ...
Why Can't Bristol Meyer Squibb Share with the Patients?
- By jimmy_B · New reply February 2, 2010
- Journal · 3 replies
- Why Can't Bristol Meyer Squibb share with the Patients? We the patients take all the risk and become their consumer base. Or should we just say No!!!! It is not like they are short on Cash. James M. Cornelius ...
Eureka!!!!!! A possible cure for Melanoma, the Deadly Skin Cancer.
- By jimmy_B · Posted January 26, 2010
- Journal · 0 replies
- Jim Breitfeller, a patient/survivor/researcher of Matastatic Melanoma has so far beaten the odds of survival. After years of researching his own treatment, he has scientifically figured out why his treatment ...
Finally a clinical trial for me...
- By LynnLuc · New reply January 20, 2010
- Journal · 2 replies
- I was finally screened and accepted into a clinical trial- "Phase I/II Pilot Study of Cellular Adoptive Immunotherapy With Autologous CD8+ Antigen-Specific T-Cell Clones in Combination With Low-Dose Aldesleukin ...
Round 2 of temodar
- By LynnLuc · New reply December 4, 2009
- Journal · 13 replies
- I was finally tested for my antigens and I have the right ones for the clinical trial I want to participate in...while waiting for a protein test of my biopsy to come back I still needed to begin another ...
Rabbit!
- By SlowNSteady · New reply December 4, 2009
- Journal · 6 replies
- I was running before work today and a rabbit ran out in front of me, over one of my feet and I screamed like the world was ending. Then I looked around and realized I was screaming and a cute furry rabbit ...
Let's Try This Again...
- By SlowNSteady · New reply November 30, 2009
- Journal · 1 reply
- Okay, November all in all was not a great month of efforts. Had some good days. Had some bad ones. But, I am not going to end the month on a bad note. Feeling recommitted and motivated, and since I haven't ...
Stage 3 Melonoma cancer
- By gouws · New reply October 27, 2009
- Discussion in Living with skin cancer · 1 reply
- How do other people with this get there minds around the fact that you disease free if there is no nodes detected, but you still a stage 3 cancer patient ...
Gene therapy
- By plwherry · Posted October 12, 2009
- Discussion in In the news · 0 replies
- Does anyone know anything about the new gene therapy treatments for melanoma that has failed bio-chemotherapy ...
Stage IV Melanoma - Lungs
Tomorrow I go for follow-up
- By LynnLuc · New reply September 19, 2009
- Journal · 4 replies
- I am anxious about finding out if the 2 weeks of radiation helped with the metastatic melanoma that was close to my superior vena cava. Wondering if the one light run of chemo did anything at all. Melanoma ...
Facial Melanoma
Anybody from Northwestern PA area?
- By 13amyers · New reply September 4, 2009
- Journal · 11 replies
- We live in northwest pa along the lake just outside of erie. I was wondering if anybody with nf lives around here that we could have get togethers and maybe start some fundraising or relays for life ...
PET Scan results
- By LynnLuc · Posted August 30, 2009
- Journal · 0 replies
- Got my latest PET scan results in since Chemo and radiation. There had been activity in my legs...now there is nothing. Activity in my thyroid, now there is nothing. Primary melanoma siteis still there ...
Guestbooks are now live!
- By TeamInspire · New reply August 15, 2009
- Journal · 6 replies
- Hello everyone, Last week we mentioned that we'd be adding guestbooks to Inspire in the near future, and they are now live! We're very excited about this feature and hope you enjoy it. To check out your ...
Scheduled maintenance this evening
- By TeamInspire · New reply August 12, 2009
- Journal · 13 replies
- All, Inspire will be performing database updates this evening starting at 8:00 Eastern. We expect the updates to take no more than 2 hours and the site will be unavailable at this time. We thank you for ...
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