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Melanoma treatment within past 3 years?

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    • January 18, 2014 at 4:01 am
    kab07011
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      Can someone explain to me please the Melanoma treatment that is newer and more effective that has come out within the past 3 years? Does this mean keeping mel at bay, but eventually mel becoming immune to the treatment as before and now the drug is just FDA approved?

      So if you have a stage 3 melanoma, what can they do differently now that they could not have done 3 years ago?

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        • January 18, 2014 at 3:11 pm
        Linny
        Participant

          For Stage III A/B Interferon still is the only FDA approved treatment, as far as I know.

          I am Stage III and in a trial for a MAGE vaccine. Back in September it was announced that this vaccine did not meet its primary endpoint but the trial would still continue to see if it meets a secondary endpoint.

          For Stage IIIC unresectable, there are a few more treatments available. I think Yervoy is approved for that stage. There may be other options but I'm not sure what they are.

          For Stage IV patients, there are many options: Zelboraf, Yervoy, Interleukin, Mekinst, Tafinlar, etc. These have all come out within the past 2 years or so. So, the medical community has made huge strides for those tieh Stage IV melamona.

          But for those of us at Stage III, options are still very limited.

          • January 18, 2014 at 3:11 pm
          Linny
          Participant

            For Stage III A/B Interferon still is the only FDA approved treatment, as far as I know.

            I am Stage III and in a trial for a MAGE vaccine. Back in September it was announced that this vaccine did not meet its primary endpoint but the trial would still continue to see if it meets a secondary endpoint.

            For Stage IIIC unresectable, there are a few more treatments available. I think Yervoy is approved for that stage. There may be other options but I'm not sure what they are.

            For Stage IV patients, there are many options: Zelboraf, Yervoy, Interleukin, Mekinst, Tafinlar, etc. These have all come out within the past 2 years or so. So, the medical community has made huge strides for those tieh Stage IV melamona.

            But for those of us at Stage III, options are still very limited.

            • January 18, 2014 at 3:11 pm
            Linny
            Participant

              For Stage III A/B Interferon still is the only FDA approved treatment, as far as I know.

              I am Stage III and in a trial for a MAGE vaccine. Back in September it was announced that this vaccine did not meet its primary endpoint but the trial would still continue to see if it meets a secondary endpoint.

              For Stage IIIC unresectable, there are a few more treatments available. I think Yervoy is approved for that stage. There may be other options but I'm not sure what they are.

              For Stage IV patients, there are many options: Zelboraf, Yervoy, Interleukin, Mekinst, Tafinlar, etc. These have all come out within the past 2 years or so. So, the medical community has made huge strides for those tieh Stage IV melamona.

              But for those of us at Stage III, options are still very limited.

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