What Is The Best Treatment For Metastatic Melanoma?

October 20, 2009 | By the doc In Cancer |

Someone close to me has been diagnosed and the outcome is looking very bad. Does anyone know of any hope for this? He is stage 4.

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4 Comments so far

Blake on October 20th, 2009

There isn’t a best treatment. We haven’t found one yet that is effective. You may want to consider a clinical trial.
Denisedd on October 20th, 2009

Most clinical trials for melanoma are not available until stage IV.
I really haven’t seen anything that great promise in the near future.
Surgery is the best treatment. Chemo does not work well. I assume be has already done high dosage of Interferon.
Probably in the mood I am in I shouldn’t even be answering this question.
Max Power on October 20th, 2009

clinical trials are his best hope, chemo doesnt seem to be too helpful. It is one of the worst types of cancer to have.
Daryl Grant, PhD writes 7 melanoma survivors telling their moving stories of survival.http://tinyurl.com/q489ru
It may lift your spirits for the person close to you.
sdheeren on October 20th, 2009

This is one of the worst cancers, IMHO. There are no great treatments here. High-dose interferon is toxic, poorly tolerated and minimally effective. Occasional patients will respond to temozolomide, which is quite well tolerated and mostly replaced DTIC, but again marginally effective. I encourage patients to primarily consider clinical trials for this disease.
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