Hey everyone,
My father in law was just diagnosed with Stage IV melanoma by an oncologist in a small town in Idaho. This oncologist is not a melanoma specialist and seems to have missed some of the big steps in the process- they have no idea where the origin of the cancer is but they know that the tumor in his shoulder isnt the origin. Also they have only done a PET scan- no other tests and they are telling him that they are going to recommend Yervoy but just to wait to see if his insurance will cover it, etc,.
Hey everyone,
My father in law was just diagnosed with Stage IV melanoma by an oncologist in a small town in Idaho. This oncologist is not a melanoma specialist and seems to have missed some of the big steps in the process- they have no idea where the origin of the cancer is but they know that the tumor in his shoulder isnt the origin. Also they have only done a PET scan- no other tests and they are telling him that they are going to recommend Yervoy but just to wait to see if his insurance will cover it, etc,.
Anyways my uncle is a Stage IV melanoma survivor after IL-2 at Roswell and my aunt has suggested that the first thing he needs to do is get a second opinion from a melanoma specialist in a big city so we are looking for doctors in Southern CA where we live for him to see. Right now we are looking at Dr. O'Day at the Angeles clinic and Dr. McClay at Pacific Oncology but if anyone has any other recommendations for melanoma specialists we would really appreciate it.
Also we really are at the start of this whole thing and my uncle's cancer treatment was 10 years ago so if anyone can give us some of the questions we should be asking at the specialists office or anything we should be expecting? Any info would be very helpful
Thanks!
Julie
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