My grandad might have Melanoma. I don't know much about this and was wondering what experiences, if any, you guys ever had with it or if you knew anyone who had it.
My grandad might have Melanoma. I don't know much about this and was wondering what experiences, if any, you guys ever had with it or if you knew anyone who had it.





As Australians are all about melanoma, given our environment, maybe reading this can help answer your questions:
http://www.cancercouncil.com.au/editorial.asp?pageid=56
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Melanoma is obviously the worst type of skin cancer that one can get. But hopefully they caught his early? If caught early melanoma has an almost 100% cure rate. Then they will remove the tumour and he will probablly have to have some chemotherapy treatment.
Melanoma (from website www.skincancer.org)
Melanoma is a malignant tumor that originates in melanocytes, the cells which produce the pigment melanin that colors our skin, hair, and eyes. The majority of melanomas are black or brown. However, some melanomas are skin-colored, pink, red, purple, blue or white.
Skin cancer on older people are extremely common. My mother is a nurse at a geriatric hospital and they remove skin cancers from the elderly all the time but they are usually BCC's (basal cell carcinomas) or SCC (Squamous cell carcinoma).
I hope your grandad gets better very soon.
Another thing to note is that because your grandad has melanoma you should get yourself checked out because it can run in families.
From website www.skincancer.org
Family History
About one in every ten patients diagnosed with the disease has a family member with a history of melanoma. If your mother, father, siblings or children have had a melanoma, you are in a melanoma-prone family. Each person with a first-degree relative diagnosed with melanoma has a 50 percent greater chance of developing the disease than people who do not have a family history. If the cancer occurred in a grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew, there is still an increase in risk, although it is not as great.
When this skin cancer is diagnosed, it is standard practice for physicians to recommend that close relatives be examined immediately for melanoma and for the presence of unusual or atypical moles. These moles are also called "dysplastic nevi."
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Update: He went to the doctor today, and my grandad does not have Melanoma. It's Shingles. Any experiences with Shingles? Anyone?





Shingles? Not much, just... ow. :/ Poor guy.
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There are many stereotypes about the industry that I work in. Sometimes they can be true but human beings are very diverse creatures and cannot be pigeon-holed into one category.
Some of the most effortlessly beautiful, kind, intelligent, successful, motivated, driven and ridiculously hilarious women that I have ever met have been dancers. I've met the best friends that I've ever had in this industry.
Wonderful news that it's not melanoma! Melanoma is extremely dangerous and if anyone has a mole that looks suspicious, is changing in size, or changing in colour - get to the doctor and have it removed immediately!
As for shingles it's basically the left-over virus from chicken pox. It affects elderly people and other people with lowered immune systems. Basically causes an extremely painful herpes-like outbreak in specific patterns on the skin (called dermatomes). We have treatment now (Acyclovir) for people who have shingles but it won't prevent future attacks.
We suggest people get immunized with the chicken pox vaccine now to avoid getting chicken pox and shingles in the future. All the best with your grandfather.
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Ohhh ok. Yea it's on his neck and jaw area, and he's in alot of pain from it. But, thank God it wasn't Melanoma! Thanks everyone who responded!
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