My husband had a turmor removed from under his arm, 11/15/13 the size of an ostrich egg. The biopsy said it was metasized cancer of an unknown primary. We set up an appointment to go to MD Anderson. His first appointment wa 01/08/14. At that time, the tumor had come back. In fact, there were now 3 of them that combined was bigger than the 1st one. MD Anderson tested the slides of the biopsy and it came back as Metastic Melanoma. The tumor got so big and my husband go ill so the tumors could not be removed. They did radiation on the tumors and he is waiting for his 4th Ippy treatment. We have an appointment the last of May with the surgeon to pssibly remove th turmors under his arm. My question, since tumors reappeared after the first surgery, what are the changes of more appearing if they remove these turmors?
If more tumors are going to appear, we just don't see the benefit of putting him thru an extremely long surgery. The surgeon said the surgery could take 6 – 8 hours. My husband has heart problems that put him at risk every time he is put under.
Any thoughts and comments would be greatly appreciated.
