MY UNIQUE SON POSSIBLY HAS A MELANOMA.‏

(I'm desperate, please help me) I'm from Brasil, my name is Kennedy Wanderley, I am a simple banking employee with few conditions and natural from a city named Caicó-RN and living into the Paraíba state since 1985 (25 years) and I have only one son named William Kennedy of only 12 years old who has since the early age shown signs characteristic of what medicine calls dysplastic nevi (I think this is the name). Today at 12 years old I think he has more than 30 signs on the back (mostly) and some close to the chest.

I'm always worried about these signs because I noticed that a couple of them were growing up and blackening in the center with enlarged verticaly (plain before, now 2 or 3 mm high). Concerned with that, I decided to remove one on them with a plastic surgeon when he was about 7 years old (2007) and at that time I remember asking an detailed evaluation of it, but until now have not received a formal result, only verbal informations of negative result from biopsy material.

From that time on I've got more relaxed, but I always get attentive and demanding that my wife sought a dermatologist regularly to keep up me informed, but she relegated this situation. My wife has a salon within a medical center here in Campina Grande, Paraíba State called MEDICAL CENTER SAN PIETRO, where she has several clients who are doctors, including a three dermatologists. But what she tells me is that although almost all of them had already superficially examined the boy, including his Pediatrician, none warned of the danger of that kind of signs, despite our insistence that he needed to be examined.

Earlier this year (March), when we went five days on a beach, I noticed that one of the signs was irritated, half white and appearing signs of keratosis (I think this is the name). I was very worried and alerted again my wife of going to the dermatologist and she returned saying that as soon as we returned would look for one. With the difficulty in finding experts in Brazil and my carelessness the time gone by, only 15 days ago, I take a look acurately in the boy and took some pictures and then enlarge them, and investigate a little about melanome. Despite not being a doctor took a huge shock and I'm weak in the knees so far. Find a doctor friend of mine in the city of Joao Pessoa, Dr. José Romero (famous and experienced surgeon) who apparently was also alarmed and referred me to an oncologist surgeon in João Pessoa (PB) I'm going tomorrow 01/11/2011.

 I am very concerned and ask for the love of God that someone in the multidisciplinary  GROUP WHO STUDY  MELANOMA to give me some hope in the name of compassion, to monitor even at distance through the sending of pictures of the sings, examinations and details of the procedures to be adopted that I can send to you. I say this because it is my only child and I don't what to treaty him blindly with only one opinion. Please help me.

Moreover, I know you are attuned to the most advanced centers in the world and can leave me about news on the topic. Finally, I can only pray that this e-mail fall into very humane hands, pious and sensitive and also can give any small relief to  my family already suffering from lung cancer in my mother aged 77, and a vocal cord cancer in my father at age 73 and now a possible melanoma on my son with only 12 years old.

 FOR GOD'S SAKE, HELP ME. Follow the photos. Note: malanoma unknown cases in the family, but his mother is blonde with few signs and my mother is white with some signs and his maternal grandmother, also has many signs.

Thank you very much. God bless you.

kennedy wanderley de souza    

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