I hadn’t realized that they’ve made great advances in treating it:
This seismic shift in melanoma care — largely brought about by enlisting the immune system in the fight — might eventually be used to treat other cancers, researchers said. Smoking-related lung cancers, among others, are now starting to respond to similar treatments, according to research to be presented at this week’s conference.
“We really are in a historical time right now,” said Dr. F. Stephen Hodi, director of the Melanoma Treatment Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. “Cancer treatment five years ago compared to five years from now — it’s going to be completely different.”
Faster, please.
I found this a little sad, though:
“Someone with metastatic melanoma, I used to tell them to ‘eat whatever you want.’ Now, I’m saying ‘you should watch that cholesterol,’ ’’ said Dr. Patrick Hwu, chairman of the Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
It’s amazing and frightening how ignorant the medical profession is about diet and cholesterol.
Doc put me on supplemental T due to fatigue. My Cholesterol dropped 23 points as a side-benefit. My Olympic Lifts also shot through my previous plateau that I had been stuck on for two years. Post workout recovery is amazing.
Speaking as someone who, just four days ago, spent considerable time online looking at images of nodular melanomas, because something similar appeared on his arm, and because his sister had a melanoma removed ten years ago, I say:
Faster, please.