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    • October 13, 2011 at 2:54 pm
    fdess056
    Participant

    January 2010 showed by Doc a large freckle on my forehead.  He totally dismissed it.  8 months later it looked like  a mole & was dry and itchy.  Dermatologist diagnosed stage 3C Dec 2010.  Had surgery to remove mole, positive parotid gland and 16 lymph nodes (2 positive)   Had radiation and Interferon.  After 22 months cancer free, recent PET showed melanoma in left tibia near knee.  Had stereotactic radiation surgery 2 weeks ago.  Waiting for next PET in December and BRAF results.    Being treated at North

    January 2010 showed by Doc a large freckle on my forehead.  He totally dismissed it.  8 months later it looked like  a mole & was dry and itchy.  Dermatologist diagnosed stage 3C Dec 2010.  Had surgery to remove mole, positive parotid gland and 16 lymph nodes (2 positive)   Had radiation and Interferon.  After 22 months cancer free, recent PET showed melanoma in left tibia near knee.  Had stereotactic radiation surgery 2 weeks ago.  Waiting for next PET in December and BRAF results.    Being treated at North Shore LIJ/Monter Cancer Center. 

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      • October 13, 2011 at 3:44 pm
      jim Breitfeller
      Participant

      You might want to start buliding a "Melanoma Care Team" around you. I would go see Dr. Jedd Wolchok at Sloan Kettering for a second opinion. If not, Jump across the sound and see Dr. Mario Sznol at Yale.

      You want Melanoma Specialists on your Team!!!

      Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD
      Director, Immunotherapy Clinical Trials, Dept of Medicine
       

      Associate Attending Physician, Melanoma-Sarcoma Service
      Associate Director, LudwigCenterfor Cancer Immunotherapy
      Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
      1275 York Avenue, Room Z-1462
      New York, NY 10021
      Phone: +1 646 888 2395
      e-mail: wolchokj@mskcc.org

      Mario Sznol, MD

      203) 785-4191 – Appointment Phone
      (203) 785-3788 – Appointment Fax
      (203) 785-6221 – Office Phone

      mario.sznol@yale.edu

      I wish you all the best

       

      Jimmy B  an ex-Long Islander

      • October 13, 2011 at 3:44 pm
      jim Breitfeller
      Participant

      You might want to start buliding a "Melanoma Care Team" around you. I would go see Dr. Jedd Wolchok at Sloan Kettering for a second opinion. If not, Jump across the sound and see Dr. Mario Sznol at Yale.

      You want Melanoma Specialists on your Team!!!

      Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD
      Director, Immunotherapy Clinical Trials, Dept of Medicine
       

      Associate Attending Physician, Melanoma-Sarcoma Service
      Associate Director, LudwigCenterfor Cancer Immunotherapy
      Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
      1275 York Avenue, Room Z-1462
      New York, NY 10021
      Phone: +1 646 888 2395
      e-mail: wolchokj@mskcc.org

      Mario Sznol, MD

      203) 785-4191 – Appointment Phone
      (203) 785-3788 – Appointment Fax
      (203) 785-6221 – Office Phone

      mario.sznol@yale.edu

      I wish you all the best

       

      Jimmy B  an ex-Long Islander

      • October 13, 2011 at 3:44 pm
      jim Breitfeller
      Participant

      You might want to start buliding a "Melanoma Care Team" around you. I would go see Dr. Jedd Wolchok at Sloan Kettering for a second opinion. If not, Jump across the sound and see Dr. Mario Sznol at Yale.

      You want Melanoma Specialists on your Team!!!

      Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD
      Director, Immunotherapy Clinical Trials, Dept of Medicine
       

      Associate Attending Physician, Melanoma-Sarcoma Service
      Associate Director, LudwigCenterfor Cancer Immunotherapy
      Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
      1275 York Avenue, Room Z-1462
      New York, NY 10021
      Phone: +1 646 888 2395
      e-mail: wolchokj@mskcc.org

      Mario Sznol, MD

      203) 785-4191 – Appointment Phone
      (203) 785-3788 – Appointment Fax
      (203) 785-6221 – Office Phone

      mario.sznol@yale.edu

      I wish you all the best

       

      Jimmy B  an ex-Long Islander

      • October 13, 2011 at 11:55 pm
      BethA in VA
      Participant

      Very sorry to hear of the Stage 4 diagnosis.  Good luck with any follow up treatments (from a MM speacialist).  Don't give up…there are lots of people still here after the trauma of a bad diagnosis.    BethA    3/B

      • October 13, 2011 at 11:55 pm
      BethA in VA
      Participant

      Very sorry to hear of the Stage 4 diagnosis.  Good luck with any follow up treatments (from a MM speacialist).  Don't give up…there are lots of people still here after the trauma of a bad diagnosis.    BethA    3/B

      • October 13, 2011 at 11:55 pm
      BethA in VA
      Participant

      Very sorry to hear of the Stage 4 diagnosis.  Good luck with any follow up treatments (from a MM speacialist).  Don't give up…there are lots of people still here after the trauma of a bad diagnosis.    BethA    3/B

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