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The most iimportant thing is not to wait around until it goes from 0-1 stage because no good can come from that, the sooner you get things taken care of the better chance you have that the cancer doesn't spread. I have a history of Melanoma in my family......my brother has stage 3 and is only 53 and now just a week ago my other brother has just found out he also has Melanoma, were waiting to get the results back to see what stage it is in at this point. Everyones Melanoma is different from what I've read in the past few years about this skin cancer. I;ve read that there is like 4 different kinds of Melanoma altho I thought that Melanoma was Melanoma but according to what I read the spreading of this cancer various from one person to the next. Someone could have stage 1 and it could turn into stage to in 4-8 months or 1-2 years so it's hard to say because this disease is very different and is very unpredictable.View Thread

The most iimportant thing is not to wait around until it goes from 0-1 stage because no good can come from that, the sooner you get things taken care of the better chance you have that the cancer doesn't spread. I have a history of Melanoma in my family......my brother has stage 3 and is only 53 and now just a week ago my other brother has just found out he also has Melanoma, were waiting to get the results back to see what stage it is in at this point. Everyones Melanoma is different from what I've read in the past few years about this skin cancer. I;ve read that there is like 4 different kinds of Melanoma altho I thought that Melanoma was Melanoma but according to what I read the spreading of this cancer various from one person to the next. Someone could have stage 1 and it could turn into stage to in 4-8 months or 1-2 years so it's hard to say because this disease is very different and is very unpredictable. So please get to your doctor asap...PatriciaView Thread
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