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Anyone doing well with liver, spleen mets?
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Anyone doing well with liver, spleen mets?

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    • August 17, 2011 at 3:27 am
    deardad
    Participant

      Hi everyone just wondering what has worked for liver and spleen mets? Blood work all ok so the tumor burden is low, but he (my dad) just had a craniotomy for a single brain met. Anyone doing well and was in the same boat?

      Hi everyone just wondering what has worked for liver and spleen mets? Blood work all ok so the tumor burden is low, but he (my dad) just had a craniotomy for a single brain met. Anyone doing well and was in the same boat?

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        • August 17, 2011 at 4:27 am
        FormerCaregiver
        Participant

          As your dad is going to be starting treatment with a BRAF inhibitor soon, I feel that he has good prospects. However, there is nothing that we have at the moment that is guaranteed to work.

          The current approach to keeping melanoma at bay is to try one treatment and then see how one responds to it. A big problem is that drugs will eventually become less effective as time goes by; meaning that the duration of response is limited in many cases. If one stops responding to the treatment, then hopefully there will be a different and/or newer drug available that one can try.

          Unfortunately, medical science is unable to predict how well someone will do with any melanoma therapy because there some important things that remain unexplained.

          To answer your original question, I am not sure who is doing well at the moment. Hopefully someone will chime in and tell you how they are.

          Take care

          Frank from Australia

          • August 17, 2011 at 4:27 am
          FormerCaregiver
          Participant

            As your dad is going to be starting treatment with a BRAF inhibitor soon, I feel that he has good prospects. However, there is nothing that we have at the moment that is guaranteed to work.

            The current approach to keeping melanoma at bay is to try one treatment and then see how one responds to it. A big problem is that drugs will eventually become less effective as time goes by; meaning that the duration of response is limited in many cases. If one stops responding to the treatment, then hopefully there will be a different and/or newer drug available that one can try.

            Unfortunately, medical science is unable to predict how well someone will do with any melanoma therapy because there some important things that remain unexplained.

            To answer your original question, I am not sure who is doing well at the moment. Hopefully someone will chime in and tell you how they are.

            Take care

            Frank from Australia

            • September 1, 2011 at 6:06 pm
            WalterA
            Participant

              A scan earlier this year found melanoma in my liver. I had RFA — radiofrequency ablation — treatment, and two follow-up scans have found nothing but scar tissue.

              • September 1, 2011 at 6:06 pm
              WalterA
              Participant

                A scan earlier this year found melanoma in my liver. I had RFA — radiofrequency ablation — treatment, and two follow-up scans have found nothing but scar tissue.

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