[marktwain]

I had to get to the very end of the article to see she credits God, and her faith in God, for her triumphs.

It was worth it.

[tubebender]

About 40 years ago my wife went to see our doctor for a bleeding ulcer. The nurse had her change into a gown and then she passed out on the floor from the loss of so much blood. The doctor rushed in to help pick her up and noticed a large spot on her thigh that turned out to be late stage Malignant Melanoma. They sent her by ambulance to the hospital and a surgeon was called in to do a biopsy that showed he had to keep cutting and cutting and then he wasn’t sure he had it all. Then a nasty infection set in and it must have cooked that spot because the cancer has not returned.

Thank You God for sparing her...

[Larry Lucido]

Just this past Monday, though, she received the news she was hoping for: Her latest brain MRI showed no evidence of cancer. She will continue to remain on treatment for now.

Thank God. One wonders, however, if Dr. Van Nostrand could have gotten a section just a little bit earlier.

[Sequoyah101]

Melanoma is so insidious I don’t see how anyone survives.

Dermatologists are scarce as hen’s teeth. It can take months to get in to see one.

[Calm_Cool_and_Elected]

Young friend died from Melanoma about ten yrs ago. Had some removed from her back when she was in college. By the time they realized it had reoccurred, it had spread internally and there wasn’t much they could do. She was 33, left two very young boys and a husband.

[b4me]

kinda silly article spends all it’s picture space( 4 if i counted coorrect on my skim through the article at link) on pictures of this woman and NONE on showing what that melanoma can look like to maybe help educate viewers/readers.

[originalbuckeye]

Amelanotic Melanoma is rarely recognized by the person. Most people aren’t aware that a lesion can be Melanoma and not be pigmented. Go for skin checks people!

[CARDINALRULES]

Former Cardinal and current A’s player Stephen Piscotty just had surgery to remove a melanoma from his right ear.

Been a rough few years for him. He lost his mom last year to ALS.

I am more excited to see him return to STL next week than Pujols this weekend.

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My dad had what we thought was a cyst on his lower back for over 10 years. He was going to have it removed at one point but had to cancel because he needed the money for other things. It was in November 2015 when it really started to annoy him. He had surgery in mid December. By this time it was about 4 inches round and almost that much above the skin. Turned out to be cancer. It was an Adenocarcinoma originating in glandular tissue but they couldn’t find from where. This was the first of three cancers in three months. His appendix and multiple myeloma. The doctor that did the surgery to remove the cyst and the appendix was great.

The doctor that treated the multiple myeloma was horrible. Without my dad’s consent he started him on chemo when he was in the hospital with too much calcium in his blood. That was end Feb/early March. Between then and June 24th he had him on a few different chemo treatments EXCEPT the one most people get at first. He also ignored all of his side effects like severe edema. On June 23rd and 24th he was given the newest treatment that had only been approved in November 2015.

On June 25th he ended up in the hospital. That was the last time I saw him. He was transferred to another hospital and died on July 4th. From the first surgery to death was less than 6 months but I consider it 3 months because of that doctor from hell.
He had internal bleeding and it had been going on for a few weeks.

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If you have something that concerns you please go to a doctor or even several doctors. My parents didn’t like the doctor the first time they met him. I told them to find another doctor but they didn’t.

We like the doctor who did the surgeries. I even sat on a jury and found in his favor in 2017. A woman didn’t follow the directions for Osmoprep and was suing him.