The Liver, too? - by Ane

The biopsy is going to be tomorrow morning.  Mark went in Tuesday to get blood drawn and was told that they would be doing an ultrasound to be sure they got the needle in the right place in the liver.  LIVER?  We thought it was the lungs.  “Oh,” she said, “well, there is a spot in the liver, too.”  Uggg.  We won’t get results until toward the end of next week.  Mark talked to his doctor again to get his take on what he really thinks this is and he had to admit that he was about 90% sure that it is metastatic melanoma.  Mark asked him to set up an appointment with the oncologist and the PET scan before we know for sure. We can always cancel the appointment, but want to get going on this as soon as possible.  We totally believe in miracles, yet want to aggressively do all we can as quickly as we can.  I’ve purchased healing foods and will start a regiment to possible slow the growth of the tumors, and we’re investigating alternative cures, as well.  The only problem with that is that everyone has a different miraculous cure so it’s hard to determine which direction to go.  I’m going to focus on foods and have a book called The Gerson Therapy that I will look at.  I will call a woman today who lives close by that has used this therapy and she is cancer free.  With all the miraculous cures cited, I’ve yet to find a success story posted of anyone with this type of cancer.  Chemotherapy is NOT effective on metastatic melanoma and we’re relieved as we don’t want to go that route, anyway.  Last night Mark was reading some information online and discovered what I had already found (and not told him) – that if metastatic melanoma is found on two organ sites survival rate is usually less than 6 months.  He had been thinking less than 5 years.  That was a blow for him.  We’re actually doing quite well as we are just dealing with what needs to be done.