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Results from dissection after surgery.
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Results from dissection after surgery.

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    • July 30, 2017 at 2:24 pm
    Ingekk
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      I am so relieved right now. They where only able to find cancer in one lymph node. It appeared to be "closed", and showed no signs of spreading. They checked 80 other lymph nodes and none of them had any cancer.

      They told me this means they do not even recomend Radiation treatement. I will be followed up every three months for 10 years to be shure that the cancer does not come back. And I will also have a couple og  pet scans the first years. 

      They think that the cancer came from the melanoma I had removed for 15 Years ago, that had spread to the lymph back then. This time we took all the lumph nodes on  the neck and my muscle, and all the blood vessels on the neck. 

      I feel like I won the lottery on this one, and are not scared anymore of the checkups to follow. I understand that it has a chance to come back other places on by body, but surgents told me that after looking at the evidence, in my case the chances are close to 0. 

      I am celebrating with my family tooday, and finally I can relax a bit, and get our well earned summer vacation.

       

      Inge Kristian

       

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        • July 30, 2017 at 2:58 pm
        SABKLYN
        Participant

          Excellent news – congrats!!

          • July 30, 2017 at 5:51 pm
          UBContributor
          Participant

            Yes!!! yiu won the lottery! Just enjoy your life. Can we know what was your stage  15 years ago? 

              • July 31, 2017 at 10:21 pm
              Ingekk
              Participant
                I an not shure about stage 15 years ago. It had spread to one lymph, and they removed it along with this surrounding it. Breslow was larger than 4 mm.

                Inge Kristian.

              • July 30, 2017 at 8:25 pm
              CindyJ
              Participant

                Great news! Sounds like that one lymph node did its job for a long, long time! Enjoy your deserving vacation!

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