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My father was just recently diagnosed with melanoma which is also a solid state cancer. It is in its very advanced stages so his prognosis is poor but if this would of happened just a few years ago he would have no choices for treatments. But now with these new immunotherapies we are starting to uncover new ways to treat these very advance cancers and they are becoming more effective with each new uncovering.

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Sorry to hear about your father. These medical and technological advances should serve to make us realise that whatever the state of the politico-economic world, we live in pretty amazing times. I hope that the curiosity of humans, and our drive to learn beats out the system in the long run.

Sorry to hear about your dad.

I have already have one melanoma but luckily they found it very early on. I have more than a thousand moles though so I am constantly being checked.

Lets hope your dad will survive. It is possible even at stage 4.

Thank you for your support, I'm glad you were able to catch yours very early as that is truly the key. Surprisingly we have yet to find the primary location where it started. Which most likely means his body fought that location off already, this gives him a bit of a better chance but it also means we weren't able to find it early enough.

Best wishes to your family——dealing with this diagnosis in my family as well.

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