Terri's Journey:
Patient: Skin Cancer - Melanoma
Patient Info: Living with cancer as a chronic illness (undergoing adjuvant therapy), Diagnosed: over 11 years ago, Female, Age: 61, Stage IV, BRAF mutation positive: Yes, c-kit positive: No
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Simple removal surgery
Procedure or Surgery
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TIL- tumor infiltrating leukocytes
Clinical Trial
I went to NIH in Maryland for a year. It was hard. Nov 2011 during Thanksgiving I got the infusion. It didn't work.
Immunotherapy
Drug or Chemo Therapy
Yervoy, first by clinical trial and then with Kaiser.
Chemotherapy
Drug or Chemo Therapy
Biochemotherapy sucks.
Anniversary
Celebration
My husband and I made it to our 30th anniversary. I didn't think I would be alive for it.
My tumors are stable!!
Celebration
I am hanging in there. I am so happy, my daughter is expecting my first grandbaby, something I thought I would never see.
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Just Diagnosed
Oh No
Thyroid cancer on top of melanoma