treatment for liver melanoma

Obviously she has and like I said the prognosis is not good.I was hoping some of my peers with expierence in this area had some other options I could research.Most nurses on this site are not so quick to post negative comments.

Thankyou both for your quick replies ,and good thoughts.I will try to keep you updated. The latest info she got today was that the drug the Dr. fels is most succesful in treating is not going to have any more avialable for release from the FDA until spring. He is hesitant to try conventinal chemo because it doesn't work on this type of tumor and makes people too sick to use the other when avialable. As you can tell my family is praying for a miracle and they DO happen,so keep her in your thoughts and prayers. Thanks again you guys are wonderful...Karen

My sister has had a second opinion with another oncologist. He feels she should not wait for treatment and mentiomioned several options other than the Bristol Meyer drug study the first oncologist was suggesting.She also spoke with an intake nurse at Wills eye clinic where she had the radiation implant done for the initial uveal melanoma. They are going to review her case on Monday. There is a physician there who is doing a lot of research and treatment in this area.Hopefully since she had her initial treatment there and this is such a rare cancer{even more so in her case as she is under 50.}she will be accepted into this program.She has been busy this week getting a pep scan and a brain scan[the first oncologist didn't feel this was needed??}Again thanks so much for the advice and info it was a big help...Karen

She is in Chicago.SHe was referred to Wills by her oncologist initially. Fortunatly she is able to go where she needs and not just where her insurance dictated.The oncologist she spoke with last week and it sounds like she will be going to is from Northwestern in Chicago and has access to Wills and MD Anderson both ,she is on the agenda Monday for Wills so hopefully they will accept her or at least be able to point her in the direction that will be the most benificial for her. Hopefully her age {45}and the fact that this was caught very early.[she was clean last year at this time]will all be in her favor and give her better longterm outcome. Thanks again for youe encouragment and suport.Hopefully she will come into contact with some really caring nurse like you in her journey. I will keep you updated . She should find out something as to what and where she willbe treated by this week. Aslo PET not PEP ..wasn;t paying attention to what I was typing..Karen