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My Battle With Melanoma

Post a new topicby livingwith on Fri May 02, 2008 4:36 pm


I was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma on a warm spring day like today in 2000. I didn’t feel sick but the mole on my back tested positive for melanoma. At first, I thought the cancer would spread and I would die! I searched the web and found a doctor’s website and began a GM-CSF regimen (immunotherapy) to prevent a reoccurrence after removal of right arm lymphnodes in 2001. After three years of treatment and additional years of checkups and skin checks I am free of the melanoma....Read the full article

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