Scan Results from MD…scared!!

She stated that it is showing close to the original site, not on it, so yes it could be an intransit. MD is a very highly reputable place for some top melanoma specialists, so she is at the right place. Using ultrasound will help find this spot and then a fine needle will be used to extract cells from it and then will be tested for melanoma. That's how the final diagnosis will be determined. 

Missy, yes if it tests positive for mel it will change your stage, but it's really great your scan didn't show anything more serious on the inside. I believe if it is mel then it would change your stage to either 3B or 3C, but you can ask your doc about that. If the stage goes to 3C and your doc can call you "stage 3C unresectable" then you'd have the whole list of immunotherapy drugs open to you just as they are to stage 4… that's how I got on Ipi/Nivo after more mel was found in a lymph node in Sept after already doing Yervoy (Ipi) 10mg. 

All the best,

Hi my wife was stage 3C more than four years ago with a very agressive cancer in pregnancy, had a few distant lymph node metastasis since but has had 5 clear scans since due to doing dentric cell vaccines with low dose nivo and ipi to brak down the supressor cells. She got it in Germany. Here is some reseach from a leading govt funded research organisation in NZ where we are from. This is not the clinic where she gets treated. We still have to go 3x a year for the next two years.

http://www.immune.org.nz/sites/default/files/conferences/2011/Lindsay%20Ancelet%20130.pdf

Our insurance company has paid for this therapy for several years. I have a supporting evidence letter that we used to get it funded and the clinic in Germany provided losts of clinical trial information. They have a 100% sucess rate for patients who show up fully resected and melanoma is the best cancer to have with their therapy. I have other friends who have not had as much sucess will vaccines but melanoma is the sweet spot.

Happy to answer questions.

Hi my wife was stage 3C more than four years ago with a very agressive cancer in pregnancy, had a few distant lymph node metastasis since but has had 5 clear scans since due to doing dentric cell vaccines with low dose nivo and ipi to brak down the supressor cells. She got it in Germany. Here is some reseach from a leading govt funded research organisation in NZ where we are from. This is not the clinic where she gets treated. We still have to go 3x a year for the next two years.

http://www.immune.org.nz/sites/default/files/conferences/2011/Lindsay%20Ancelet%20130.pdf

Our insurance company has paid for this therapy for several years. I have a supporting evidence letter that we used to get it funded and the clinic in Germany provided losts of clinical trial information. They have a 100% sucess rate for patients who show up fully resected and melanoma is the best cancer to have with their therapy. I have other friends who have not had as much sucess will vaccines but melanoma is the sweet spot.

Happy to answer questions.

Hi my wife was stage 3C more than four years ago with a very agressive cancer in pregnancy, had a few distant lymph node metastasis since but has had 5 clear scans since due to doing dentric cell vaccines with low dose nivo and ipi to brak down the supressor cells. She got it in Germany. Here is some reseach from a leading govt funded research organisation in NZ where we are from. This is not the clinic where she gets treated. We still have to go 3x a year for the next two years.

http://www.immune.org.nz/sites/default/files/conferences/2011/Lindsay%20Ancelet%20130.pdf

Our insurance company has paid for this therapy for several years. I have a supporting evidence letter that we used to get it funded and the clinic in Germany provided losts of clinical trial information. They have a 100% sucess rate for patients who show up fully resected and melanoma is the best cancer to have with their therapy. I have other friends who have not had as much sucess will vaccines but melanoma is the sweet spot.

Happy to answer questions.

She stated that it is showing close to the original site, not on it, so yes it could be an intransit. MD is a very highly reputable place for some top melanoma specialists, so she is at the right place. Using ultrasound will help find this spot and then a fine needle will be used to extract cells from it and then will be tested for melanoma. That's how the final diagnosis will be determined. 

Missy, yes if it tests positive for mel it will change your stage, but it's really great your scan didn't show anything more serious on the inside. I believe if it is mel then it would change your stage to either 3B or 3C, but you can ask your doc about that. If the stage goes to 3C and your doc can call you "stage 3C unresectable" then you'd have the whole list of immunotherapy drugs open to you just as they are to stage 4… that's how I got on Ipi/Nivo after more mel was found in a lymph node in Sept after already doing Yervoy (Ipi) 10mg. 

All the best,

She stated that it is showing close to the original site, not on it, so yes it could be an intransit. MD is a very highly reputable place for some top melanoma specialists, so she is at the right place. Using ultrasound will help find this spot and then a fine needle will be used to extract cells from it and then will be tested for melanoma. That's how the final diagnosis will be determined. 

Missy, yes if it tests positive for mel it will change your stage, but it's really great your scan didn't show anything more serious on the inside. I believe if it is mel then it would change your stage to either 3B or 3C, but you can ask your doc about that. If the stage goes to 3C and your doc can call you "stage 3C unresectable" then you'd have the whole list of immunotherapy drugs open to you just as they are to stage 4… that's how I got on Ipi/Nivo after more mel was found in a lymph node in Sept after already doing Yervoy (Ipi) 10mg. 

All the best,