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Battling Melanoma
One Couple's Struggle from Diagnosis to Cure
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2016
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In June 2013, Gordon Cornwall’s melanoma went metastatic and spread to his brain. He and his wife, Claudia, thought it was “game-over.” But his oncologist encouraged them to look for a clinical trial that might work for his form of melanoma. After embarking on a continent-wide search, they found a study in Texas with spots for just two more patients. They scrambled to get Gordon enrolled, and in August 2013, three days after he had his first infusion, he was astonished to see a lump on his shoulder softening and shrinking. Three months later, in November, a CT-scan revealed that all his tumors had disappeared.
This story of one couple’s battle to beat melanoma illustrates how a new treatment, immunotherapy, can defeat even aggressive forms of the disease. It also shows how patients can access the most advanced therapies by enrolling in clinical trials. Claudia describes Gordon’s case and learns from conversations with eminent researchers. She paints a portrait of an illness that is difficult but not impossible to combat. With vivid firsthand accounts from their diaries, as well as Claudia’s intimate narrative of the ups and downs of cancer treatment, this book will be a ready resource for melanoma patients and their families. It demonstrates how they can fight the disease medically as well as support each other emotionally and physically.
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2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-4515-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-4516-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
213
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 A Pimple-like Thing No access Pages 1 - 8
2 What’s Real and What Isn’t? No access Pages 9 - 24
3 I Will Always Love You No access Pages 25 - 30
4 The Mad Rush No access Pages 31 - 38
5 Don’t Worry About It No access Pages 39 - 52
6 We Have No Way of Monitoring Success No access Pages 53 - 64
7 The Iconoclast: A Visit with James Allison No access Pages 65 - 78
8 A Cloud of Uncertainty No access Pages 79 - 86
9 A Hairy Week So Far No access Pages 87 - 98
10 It’s Not Brain Surgery No access Pages 99 - 106
11 The First Hill No access Pages 107 - 116
12 Because I Am an Optimist No access Pages 117 - 132
13 We Have Two Slots Left No access Pages 133 - 146
14 An Unexpected Molecule No access Pages 147 - 158
15 You’ve Got to Be Kidding! No access Pages 159 - 174
16 Now, There Are All of You No access Pages 175 - 188
