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My dad was diagnosed non hodgekins disease three years ago. After 8 Go to my page below .. click on disease .. and then cancer .. The page is pretty much straight forward .. You have to read a bit .. Although, unfortunately, nothing you will read there is either true or useful.

Indeed. That’s one of the kookier sites I’ve seen in a while. — Orac        |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent."             |             |"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you             | inconvenience me with questions?"

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Indeed. That’s one of the kookier sites I’ve seen in a while.

Be sure to tell all your friends .. Who loves ya. Tom — Orac        |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent."             |             |"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you             | inconvenience me with questions?"

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Be sure to tell all your friends ..

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Hi all, My dad was diagnosed non hodgekins disease three years ago. After 8 chemotherapies it was gone. However this year it has returned. Or some form of cancer has. The docters have diagnosed it as a melanoma, I don’t not if this is the correct spelling, but they also reconize this is as "impossible" because a melanoma ussually spreads out to the liver or lungs and not the lymph nodes.  Because it looks a lot like the cancer my dad had three years ago, they have given him a another chemotherapy to see if it works. And we are waiting for the results. Does anybody have information about this form of cancer? Please help me

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi all, My dad was diagnosed non hodgekins disease three years ago. After 8 chemotherapies it was gone. However this year it has returned. Or some form of cancer has. The docters have diagnosed it as a melanoma, I don’t not if this is the correct spelling, but they also reconize this is as "impossible" because a melanoma ussually spreads out to the liver or lungs and not the lymph nodes.  Because it looks a lot like the cancer my dad had three years ago, they have given him a another chemotherapy to see if it works. And we are waiting for the results. Does anybody have information about this form of cancer? Please help me

It’s difficult to understand how lymphoma and melanoma could be confused either clinically or pathologically. Melanoma certainly can spread to lymph nodes, in fact it is common for that to happen.

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My dad was diagnosed non hodgekins disease three years ago. After 8

Go to my page below .. click on disease .. and then cancer .. The page is pretty much straight forward .. You have to read a bit .. Who loves ya. Tom — Jesus was a Vegetarian! http://www.nucleus.com/watchman Moses was a Mystic! http://www.nucleus.com/watchman/light.html

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My dad was diagnosed non hodgekins disease three years ago. After 8 Go to my page below .. click on disease .. and then cancer .. The page is pretty much straight forward .. You have to read a bit ..

Although, unfortunately, nothing you will read there is either true or useful.

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Hi all, My dad was diagnosed non hodgekins disease three years ago. After 8 chemotherapies it was gone. However this year it has returned. Or some form of cancer has. The docters have diagnosed it as a melanoma, I don’t not if this is the correct spelling, but they also reconize this is as "impossible" because a melanoma ussually spreads out to the liver or lungs and not the lymph nodes.

Actually, melanoma very frequently spreads to the lymph nodes. Indeed, regional lymph nodes are nearly always the first place it goes to before metastasizing widely. For extremity melanomas, the standard of care is now to do lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymph node biopsy at the time of tumor resection to determine if the tumor has spread to the regional lymph nodes. Because it looks a lot like the cancer my dad had three years ago, they have given him a another chemotherapy to see if it works. And we are waiting for the results. Does anybody have information about this form of cancer?

It’s hard to tell what’s going on here. It would be unlikely to me that they would confuse melanoma and a lymphoma. Other than the fact that they can both involve lymph nodes, they look very different histologically. — Orac        |"A statement of fact cannot be insolent."             |             |"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do you             | inconvenience me with questions?"

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