What are the real chances of survivng a melanoma?!
Question: What are the real chances of survivng a melanoma.?
Some of you may have answered some of my other questions, so here goes another one.
My husband had a melanoma on the back of his neck which was removed in 1998. The question whether it was removed properly or not, nobody can tell.
He died three months ago with the following: massive tumours on both kidneys, three tumours on liver, two big tumours on pancreas, metastatic lesions in the lungs, hundreds of tiny tumours on the small bowel (which caused it to rupture - he subsequently died of peritonitis) and a massive brain tumour. He also had small patches of basal cell carcinoma on his head.
The surgeon who operated him said that all the tumours she saw were black. Are these melanoma related tumours, and if so is it possible for a melanoma to take ten years to develop into something so serious.? I would have imagined that it would have gone a lot quicker.
Thank you for your time.Health Question & Answer
My husband had a melanoma on the back of his neck which was removed in 1998. The question whether it was removed properly or not, nobody can tell.
He died three months ago with the following: massive tumours on both kidneys, three tumours on liver, two big tumours on pancreas, metastatic lesions in the lungs, hundreds of tiny tumours on the small bowel (which caused it to rupture - he subsequently died of peritonitis) and a massive brain tumour. He also had small patches of basal cell carcinoma on his head.
The surgeon who operated him said that all the tumours she saw were black. Are these melanoma related tumours, and if so is it possible for a melanoma to take ten years to develop into something so serious.? I would have imagined that it would have gone a lot quicker.
Thank you for your time.Health Question & Answer
Answers:
Yes it is possible and happens more often than you realize. Melanoma is the most unpredictable cancer we know. It behaves strangely and initially may look like other types of cancer. Unless it is completely removed surgically we do not have any effective treatments against it. Let me give you some examples just from this past year.
I had a case of a man who had a huge mass on his left kidney. It was so big the kidney itself could not be visualized on radiology. A biopsy was taken and was found to be kidney cancer on pathology. The man went into surgery. The tumor was so large the surgeon could not get it out and had to call another surgeon for help from the operating room. Once it was removed it was found to be a 28cm metastatic melanoma tumor. The tumor completely encased this man
I had a case of a man who had a huge mass on his left kidney. It was so big the kidney itself could not be visualized on radiology. A biopsy was taken and was found to be kidney cancer on pathology. The man went into surgery. The tumor was so large the surgeon could not get it out and had to call another surgeon for help from the operating room. Once it was removed it was found to be a 28cm metastatic melanoma tumor. The tumor completely encased this man
The consumer health information on youqa.cn is
for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice or
treatment for any medical conditions.
The answer content post by the user, if contains the copyright content please contact us, we will immediately remove it.
The answer content post by the user, if contains the copyright content please contact us, we will immediately remove it.
Copyright © 2007-2012 YouQA.cn - Terms of Use - Contact us