Stage IV Metatastic Diagnosis

Hi

My husband was also diagnosed Stage 4 in November, 2014, with a brain tumour.  He also did not have any symptoms and was feeling well–the brain tumour was found in a routine CT scan.  He ended up having the tumour removed through a Craniotomy in late November, followed by gamma knife brain radiation in December, 2014.  He is very tired and weak still, but has no pain or other symptoms.  He was NED as of full body scans on Jan. 20, 2015.  Best of luck to your husband!

Yasmin

Hi

My husband was also diagnosed Stage 4 in November, 2014, with a brain tumour.  He also did not have any symptoms and was feeling well–the brain tumour was found in a routine CT scan.  He ended up having the tumour removed through a Craniotomy in late November, followed by gamma knife brain radiation in December, 2014.  He is very tired and weak still, but has no pain or other symptoms.  He was NED as of full body scans on Jan. 20, 2015.  Best of luck to your husband!

Yasmin

Hi

My husband was also diagnosed Stage 4 in November, 2014, with a brain tumour.  He also did not have any symptoms and was feeling well–the brain tumour was found in a routine CT scan.  He ended up having the tumour removed through a Craniotomy in late November, followed by gamma knife brain radiation in December, 2014.  He is very tired and weak still, but has no pain or other symptoms.  He was NED as of full body scans on Jan. 20, 2015.  Best of luck to your husband!

Yasmin

Ha. Mom2Andy In 2011 i was diagnose with stage 3c melanoma I to felt fine the hole time . it was when they tild me it was melanoma & they started cutting removed lymphnodes & more cutting . it was gone for about 1month & came  back they removed more lympnodes & cut out more . that listed about a week then started spreading verry fast.I ended up at the main Cancer center in Atlanta  Ga.  they cut & tried Kemo with no luck they wanted to take my leg off To slow down the cancre & give me a nother month to live . i Refused & i was told there was no cure for my cancer. 1 of the nurses at my Church told me that there ware some places that was doing experimental treatments & to check it out.  that was in the later part of 2012 I called then & found out that they have been treating cancers since the 1970s  i was in real bad shape when i got to them  i was in a wheel chair .. the treatment had never been able to be aproved by the FDA. so i had to go to the Camen Islands  to get my treatments after the first one i was able to walk. a month later i was walking on my own . & fealing a lot better.  i had a MRI & Pet scan. done after back in the states & now showing no signs if any cancer Even in my kidneys. 6 mo . later still no cancern its 2015 still perfectly clean of cancer. I would not have believed it if i hadent lived it my self. I am on this site to tell others there are cures for cancer . The name is Perseus PCI  you can find it on the Internet . i have a video Along with others. i do not type so well if you like to call me i would be glad to talk to you. I think God has given me a change to make a difference to help others .       Ray. Merrill  

Ha. Mom2Andy In 2011 i was diagnose with stage 3c melanoma I to felt fine the hole time . it was when they tild me it was melanoma & they started cutting removed lymphnodes & more cutting . it was gone for about 1month & came  back they removed more lympnodes & cut out more . that listed about a week then started spreading verry fast.I ended up at the main Cancer center in Atlanta  Ga.  they cut & tried Kemo with no luck they wanted to take my leg off To slow down the cancre & give me a nother month to live . i Refused & i was told there was no cure for my cancer. 1 of the nurses at my Church told me that there ware some places that was doing experimental treatments & to check it out.  that was in the later part of 2012 I called then & found out that they have been treating cancers since the 1970s  i was in real bad shape when i got to them  i was in a wheel chair .. the treatment had never been able to be aproved by the FDA. so i had to go to the Camen Islands  to get my treatments after the first one i was able to walk. a month later i was walking on my own . & fealing a lot better.  i had a MRI & Pet scan. done after back in the states & now showing no signs if any cancer Even in my kidneys. 6 mo . later still no cancern its 2015 still perfectly clean of cancer. I would not have believed it if i hadent lived it my self. I am on this site to tell others there are cures for cancer . The name is Perseus PCI  you can find it on the Internet . i have a video Along with others. i do not type so well if you like to call me i would be glad to talk to you. I think God has given me a change to make a difference to help others .       Ray. Merrill  

Ha. Mom2Andy In 2011 i was diagnose with stage 3c melanoma I to felt fine the hole time . it was when they tild me it was melanoma & they started cutting removed lymphnodes & more cutting . it was gone for about 1month & came  back they removed more lympnodes & cut out more . that listed about a week then started spreading verry fast.I ended up at the main Cancer center in Atlanta  Ga.  they cut & tried Kemo with no luck they wanted to take my leg off To slow down the cancre & give me a nother month to live . i Refused & i was told there was no cure for my cancer. 1 of the nurses at my Church told me that there ware some places that was doing experimental treatments & to check it out.  that was in the later part of 2012 I called then & found out that they have been treating cancers since the 1970s  i was in real bad shape when i got to them  i was in a wheel chair .. the treatment had never been able to be aproved by the FDA. so i had to go to the Camen Islands  to get my treatments after the first one i was able to walk. a month later i was walking on my own . & fealing a lot better.  i had a MRI & Pet scan. done after back in the states & now showing no signs if any cancer Even in my kidneys. 6 mo . later still no cancern its 2015 still perfectly clean of cancer. I would not have believed it if i hadent lived it my self. I am on this site to tell others there are cures for cancer . The name is Perseus PCI  you can find it on the Internet . i have a video Along with others. i do not type so well if you like to call me i would be glad to talk to you. I think God has given me a change to make a difference to help others .       Ray. Merrill  

Hi I had stage 4 in my lungs disgnosed in June 2014 and apart from a persistent cough I felt great. Never better. So I was devastated  to get my diagnosis. It's just so hard to believe. Now on key truss and doing really well 

Hi I had stage 4 in my lungs disgnosed in June 2014 and apart from a persistent cough I felt great. Never better. So I was devastated  to get my diagnosis. It's just so hard to believe. Now on key truss and doing really well 

Hi I had stage 4 in my lungs disgnosed in June 2014 and apart from a persistent cough I felt great. Never better. So I was devastated  to get my diagnosis. It's just so hard to believe. Now on key truss and doing really well 

Hi Mom2Addy,

Yes, I too was hit just like that.  A totally healthy feeling 38 girl that was slapped across the face with stage 4.  I had a primary melanoma back in 2000, followed by a few more smaller melanomas shortly after that.  Then nothing at all for about 10 years. 

Somewhere around 2010, my PCP's office called and some doctor in breast health got ahold of my chart, as well as my mothers chart.  She wanted us to come in due to my melanoma history and my mother's breast cancer history.  She was someone we had never met and she was just studying family history and found both our charts.  So even though we both were totally healthy and fine, she asked that I get one breast MRI and one mammogram each year just to make sure I was all good.

So I went in for my usual breast MRI in August 2012 and didn't think anything of it.  They called me back in mid Sept to say something grew and I needed an ultrasound.  They then did a Core biopsy and boom…metastatic melanoma to my right arm pit.  Then the Pet scan showed it was in many nodes throughout my upper body and in my liver.  Such a strange thing to believe considering I felt totally normal.

So I started the Merck pd1 a month later and have been on it over 2 years now.  It has worked and completely shrunk everything down to nothing and I am still feeling fine.  Only evidence I saw throughout all of this was that one of my nodes intially kept growing.  So 3 months into treatment I could start feeling it in my arm pit.  Then at 6 months into treatment it blew up and was hanging out of me for two days.  Then it died and shrunk back down to nothing. 

So yup, the doctors were right, there was some bad stuff going on inside me.  Had that one doctor I had never known, not taken an interest in me, I wouldn't have found my stage 4 as early because there were no symptoms.  I am a very lucky girl.

All my best to you, Laurie

Hi Mom2Addy,

Yes, I too was hit just like that.  A totally healthy feeling 38 girl that was slapped across the face with stage 4.  I had a primary melanoma back in 2000, followed by a few more smaller melanomas shortly after that.  Then nothing at all for about 10 years. 

Somewhere around 2010, my PCP's office called and some doctor in breast health got ahold of my chart, as well as my mothers chart.  She wanted us to come in due to my melanoma history and my mother's breast cancer history.  She was someone we had never met and she was just studying family history and found both our charts.  So even though we both were totally healthy and fine, she asked that I get one breast MRI and one mammogram each year just to make sure I was all good.

So I went in for my usual breast MRI in August 2012 and didn't think anything of it.  They called me back in mid Sept to say something grew and I needed an ultrasound.  They then did a Core biopsy and boom…metastatic melanoma to my right arm pit.  Then the Pet scan showed it was in many nodes throughout my upper body and in my liver.  Such a strange thing to believe considering I felt totally normal.

So I started the Merck pd1 a month later and have been on it over 2 years now.  It has worked and completely shrunk everything down to nothing and I am still feeling fine.  Only evidence I saw throughout all of this was that one of my nodes intially kept growing.  So 3 months into treatment I could start feeling it in my arm pit.  Then at 6 months into treatment it blew up and was hanging out of me for two days.  Then it died and shrunk back down to nothing. 

So yup, the doctors were right, there was some bad stuff going on inside me.  Had that one doctor I had never known, not taken an interest in me, I wouldn't have found my stage 4 as early because there were no symptoms.  I am a very lucky girl.

All my best to you, Laurie

Hi Mom2Addy,

Yes, I too was hit just like that.  A totally healthy feeling 38 girl that was slapped across the face with stage 4.  I had a primary melanoma back in 2000, followed by a few more smaller melanomas shortly after that.  Then nothing at all for about 10 years. 

Somewhere around 2010, my PCP's office called and some doctor in breast health got ahold of my chart, as well as my mothers chart.  She wanted us to come in due to my melanoma history and my mother's breast cancer history.  She was someone we had never met and she was just studying family history and found both our charts.  So even though we both were totally healthy and fine, she asked that I get one breast MRI and one mammogram each year just to make sure I was all good.

So I went in for my usual breast MRI in August 2012 and didn't think anything of it.  They called me back in mid Sept to say something grew and I needed an ultrasound.  They then did a Core biopsy and boom…metastatic melanoma to my right arm pit.  Then the Pet scan showed it was in many nodes throughout my upper body and in my liver.  Such a strange thing to believe considering I felt totally normal.

So I started the Merck pd1 a month later and have been on it over 2 years now.  It has worked and completely shrunk everything down to nothing and I am still feeling fine.  Only evidence I saw throughout all of this was that one of my nodes intially kept growing.  So 3 months into treatment I could start feeling it in my arm pit.  Then at 6 months into treatment it blew up and was hanging out of me for two days.  Then it died and shrunk back down to nothing. 

So yup, the doctors were right, there was some bad stuff going on inside me.  Had that one doctor I had never known, not taken an interest in me, I wouldn't have found my stage 4 as early because there were no symptoms.  I am a very lucky girl.

All my best to you, Laurie