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Ear Lump?

Okay, so I have this lump under the skin on my ear. This has happened before in my ear lobe, where a small...

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cancer expert

Haylene I posted a request under your last adivice. It should have been posted under a seperatae title so here it...

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Melanoma Anyone Know of ANYTHING???

My friend has been diagnosed with melanoma at stage 3, and it since has progressed to stage 4. She is...

Posted by Polarrose1

My friend has been diagnosed with melanoma at stage 3, and it since has progressed to stage 4. She is currently being treated, but the treatments are not working. She is set to start whole brain radiation this upcoming week, and I am wondering if anyone knows of any treatment options, experimental? Trials?
This is her current statement on her blog:

How do you even process this? I need to write it here because I can't even think straight right now to explain everything to everyone and I love everyone but I'm too emotional to want to talk about it at this very moment.
Well first off, I've been in the hospital for the last 7 days because it turns out that my oxygen was low causing blue lips, confusion, heart racing and shaking I couldn't stand for 2 mins without feeling like this- it turns out an antibiotic they put me on caused the oxygen I was getting to not be released to my body and caused my 'methemoglobin' levels to be high, still don't know what that is but they're going down and I finally feel a little better than I did the day I got here as far as that goes.
The part I can't or don't want to process right now is that after doing MRI's and a spinal tap they found out that one of my tumors in the cervical spine/brain stem area grew & there are melanoma cancer cells in my spinal fluid. As if this doesn't sound bad enough, my dr explained why it's a really bad thing. The area that the tumor is in controls your breathing and other important functions that essentially keep you alive and if that grows anymore it could basically be life threatening. Next, since spinal fluid also circulates to your brain and mine has cancer cells in it, these cells can potentially cause more tumors in my brain & up & down my spine or will make the tumors I do have get worse causing more symptoms and making them harder to treat down the line.
So the best treatment according to my dr and another team of specialists is whole brain radiation with targeted therapy to the tumor that grew. It's not 100% that it'll kill what's there because lovely melanoma resists radiation a lot of the time.. So now as for side effects, I'll lose my hair, be even more tired than I've been lately & possibly have mild 'cognitive issues' down the line for the hope that this may work.. but right now it's the only choice I have.
I really just need to get out of here (they say hopefully tomorrow after they do the set up for radiation) have a day or two to not think about any of this at all then maybe I'll be ready to process it.. Just maybe.View Thread

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How to find the best hospital?

How do you find the very best hospital for treatment of a specific cancer. Is there a place where the...

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How to find the best hospital?

How do you find the very best hospital for treatment of a specific cancer. Is there a place where the...

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Is it Laryngeal Cancer?

I have had a hoarse voice for 2 months and a lump feeling in my throat. I have a persistent cough and I...

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negative biopsy

My 85 year old father has had two biopsies of a small lung tumor over the last 6 months after it was detected...

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Brother's stage IV renal cancer and radiation ther...

Hello, I've been a long time member of WebMD but it's been a long time since I've posted anything. My...

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ct scan results today

today we find out if the cancer cells are going away .

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Undifferentiated sarcoma of the liver

I was diagnosed with undifferentiated sarcoma of the liver back in 1997, I was 12, I have been doing research...

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The effect of chemotherapy drugs on children born ...

My daughter passed away 14 years ago. She didn't make after the second cancer diagnosis. After having...

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mixed response and chemo switch?.....

wasnt sure if there's an oncologist reading these discussions.....i received chemo last year for NHL and i...

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Bladder CA

84 yr old male w/CAD & HBP, stent & TIA hx, dx w/bladder cancer last year, decided not to undergo...

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Hep C and liver cancer?????

My husband has hep c. They do not know how long he has had it either. So they do not know the damage it has...

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Swollen Nodes

I have had breast cancer (4 yrs. ago) and breast cancer reoccur in my supraclavicular lymph nodes (last...

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Cancer removed from Kidney- Questions

Hello, Family friend had a cancerous mass removed from his kidney today. They say they "got it all" and he...

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Research Question

I am new to web md community and i have lots of ideas about coming up with cures for diseases as if...

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Worried Newbie

Hello to all, I am new here and haven't been diagnosed, I actually haven't even been to the doctor yet....

Posted by aquariusmind

Hello to all,

I am new here and haven't been diagnosed, I actually haven't even been to the doctor yet. I'm waiting for my health insurance to kick in first, I have two more weeks left

I am having issues with my thyroid. I have for quite some time. In 2003 shortly after my first daughter was born my GP told me "Oh you have a goiter." she sent me to for bloodwork which showed a "low" but normal result. Because of insurance changes I had to switch doctors a few times but I made sure to carry the information over. In 2006 I switched doctors again and he felt my thyroid and sent me for an ultrasound, the results were that I had 2 small masses and 2 cyst like lumps but they appeared benign so follow up in 6 months. My current marriage fell apart and I lost my insurance so I never followed up. I never even made it a second thought, assuring myself "I'm young, I'll be fine." It wasn't until this past year that I really felt it bugging me. Like something in the back of my mind telling me something wasn't right. After my second child I lost a lot of my baby weight, getting down to my high school weight. But in the last year I've gained all of it back and then some. I thought it was due to poor exercise because I eat healthy. I've had a lot of coughs and sore throats, but put it off as "must be allergies". But in the past few months I've felt a lot of pain not just as a sore throat but sharp pains shooting through my neck, I get a weird taste at the back of my throat and my inner ears are always sore and I get a "popping" like when you're driving through the mountains, but I live at very low eleation in the desert. About three months ago I noticed that I feel like I have something in the back of my throat, it makes it hard to swallow sometimes and I sound "winded" when I breathe. A few days ago I noticed that my right collar bone sticks out more than my left, my right side of my neck is prominently more swollen and this morning saw this purpleish/blueish ring around my neck almost like I had a piece of rope around my neck or something. I get headaches and "brain fog" quite a lot too....A part of me is telling me that I am silly and I am fine. I will turn 28 in February and I am a single mother to two young girls. But a part of me sasy something is not right too.

Has anyone had similar symptoms? I know I need to go see a dr about this and will ASAP but I guess just needing to say it all out loud since I don't want to worry my family & friends with all this.

Any advice is much appreciated!View Thread

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Testing for Cancer ?

Hi,I just saw my pain management Dr. for other problems,but I have lost 90lbs over 1 1/2 yrs and cant gain any...

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Cancer diagnosis with just ct scan?

I recently went to the dr for pain on the keft and right side of my upper abdomen. An ultrasound was done that...

Posted by Micha29

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Can a cyst become cancerous after not being cancer...

I've had this small (half grain of rice sized) bump on my epididymis for six years now and I'm pretty sure at...

Posted by An_241906

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Acute Myeloid Leukemia and brain function.

My father recently passed away with AML and hairy cell leukemia. His thinking and personality changed toward...

Posted by An_241975

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thyroid

I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in September 2011 by a doctor in Worcester Ma. However she went on...

Posted by marie12345678

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