Dear all,
I’ve been posting here before on behalf of my father, who has been stage IV for 3 years now. He has had 2 operations before to remove metastasis (one behind his ear, one behind his kidneys). He has been NED for a year now, unfortunately they found something on the PET scan last week.
Today he had an internal stomach research of which we will get the restults next week. However, the docter performing the research said he had no doubts that it looked like melanom metastasis. We will have a meeting with our oncologist next week Friday (no option to have the appointment earlier since he is on holidays..)
Before our appointment next week, I would like to know which options we have right now. Not sure if this can be removed with surgery or not. He has been tested positive for BRAF, so Zelboraf could be an option. He did not try Yervoy yet, so that is also a possibility. We’re seeing dr Haanen at NKI-AVL and he is involved in the TIL study, so we might ask if that is an option too.
I would appreciate any feedback on this and maybe there are people on this forum who also had metastasis to the stomach.
Karin