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Age51, 254pounds, 5, 6feet female was diagnosed with melanoma in 2011, march.many operations, foot got bigger, can't sleep.got chemo, didn't help.any solution?

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Dr. Mark Burke answered

Specializes in Surgery - Plastics

Still have melanoma?: If sleeping is the problem- great! see your doc for a list a behavior modification to help sleep, drugs last resort. If lymph edema is problem- compression, massage, time. Consider free lymph node transfer if persists (~50% success). If you have distant spread please ask your doc to help you enroll in the anti-pd 1 trials for metastatic melanoma, 4 places in the us, dana farber (boston) is one.

Answered 12/27/2014

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