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Stage IV melanoma: What's your experience with immunotherapy?
Cancer | Last Active: Aug 12, 2021 | Replies (32)Comment receiving replies
@emmasmimi123, I hope you'll also ask that question about positive and negative results of your oncologist. I would be interested in what you learn. I'm also tagging @bboseski12 and @texastribble on this discussion.
You may be interested in this related discussion that @mlenney167 started:
- Stage IV melanoma: What's your experience with immunotherapy? https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/stage-iv-melanoma/
Emma, when do you meet with your oncologist again? How many more treatments do you have?
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It sounds like you are starting the maintenance phase of dosing for immunotherapy. Congratulations! This should mean you have had interval re-stagging imaging studies such as PET/CT or plan CT that revealed stable disease “no growth/metastasis” or response “ decrease in tumor burden or “ shrinkage”. Not to mention you tolerated the immunotherapy without any significant side effects.
This is great news!