Ingekk

So I am back home from surgery. Still recovering, and my neck is looking like something from a Frankenstein movie. I dont mind it, but they removet a tooth from my lower back jaw, and that really hurts. GOing back next friday to hear what they found in the removed tissue. They told me that they could not se anything else than one large lymph when doing the surgery, so I guess that is good news. They still tell me thet the surgery are going to heal me, and they tell me that it will not likely come back again, as there is no evidence of any melanoma spreading trough the blood system. Still they recomend me to take radiation to be shure that any leftovers from surgery are taken care of. At this point there is no other treatment available for me as they think I should be free from melanoma after this surgerey. At the same time they also states, you never know for 100% with this diease.

Inge Kristian

I an not shure about stage 15 years ago. It had spread to one lymph, and they removed it along with this surrounding it. Breslow was larger than 4 mm.

Inge Kristian.

Thanks. That is a lot of reading. I guess I will need to have a talk with my cancer team after the surgery. If combined therapy is the way to go then I will push for th to give me that treatment. I also have health insurance that may give me the therapy even if I can’t get it from the State hospital.
In our situation we need to get the best advices from the people treating is, but often money talks and we suffer from it.

Inge Kristian

My original WLE was about 4 cm from the lymph that now is huge. It was over 4mm thick and had spread to one lymph. I had a surgery to take out the closest lymph nodes around the mole. After that I had only palpation and they also watched over my moles every 6 months for 10 years. The last 5 years I guess I thought I was healthy and was told that the risk of getting it back was close to zero.
I am thinking that if the cancer waits another 15 years to show itself I have a really good chance of beating this.