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EX_mrs_ant_man said:
Smoking is not going to cut it, and, as far as I know, neither is HEMP oil - you need PURE CBD oil.
You need the CBD oil found in the cannabis plant - this is not found in hemp. Why do you think hemp oil is legal and cannabis oil isn't?
I have been on pure cannabis oil for over a year now (stage 4 breast cancer) - is it working?......who knows but I have got nothing to lose.
Does it make me high? Nope, because I take it half an hour before bedtime, it helps put me to sleep too. Once or twice, I have taken it and not gone to bed and I did get high, so I have learnt my lesson!
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Was more referring to it as a pain medication. Smoking weed is apparently a very good pain killer :eek:
 
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SirFooK'nG said:
I watched Sky news this morning when they did a news bit on it. Very interesting. I didn't hear them specifically mention malignant melanoma, but the part about the new treatment is aimed at treating cancers that don't respond to chemo makes me hopeful...

I'm a Stage 3 Malignant Melanoma survivor. The thought of it coming back scares the shyte out of me. Radiation & Surgery is so destructive.
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Also Melanoma survivor here .
I know that fear , and I have become very careful when spending time in the sun.
 
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porchrat said:
It applies to every cancer. You can have that same cancer metastasize to a new area, you can have it re-emerge after you go into remission but it is still the same cancer as before. You can't get the same exact mutations again for a second time. Well, you can but the odds are astronomically low.
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I don`t think the same applies to Melanoma.
From what I have been told and read is that if you are a lot more likely to get melanoma again even if original is removed completely.
Hence follow up visits on a 6 monthly basis is highly recommended and sunburn or even just excessive exposure to the sun is not a good idea. (Sun tanning , topless swimming for extended periods etc)
The only time i really spend a long time in the sun is with my monthly golfing and even then I take care to have Sunscreen Max SPF and a golf cart so i have mobile shade .
I also try play early morning as often as possible to try and minimize the high noon sun exposure.
 
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Zyraz said:
Also Melanoma survivor here .
I know that fear , and I have become very careful when spending time in the sun.
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Going for another removal & biopsy tomorrow on a mole on my back .... Not fun waiting for results. Had my last PET in early December 2015. was all clear then...
 
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Cancer is too profitable to come out with a cure.Screw Big pharma.
 
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Zyraz said:
I don`t think the same applies to Melanoma.
From what I have been told and read is that if you are a lot more likely to get melanoma again even if original is removed completely.
Hence follow up visits on a 6 monthly basis is highly recommended and sunburn or even just excessive exposure to the sun is not a good idea. (Sun tanning , topless swimming for extended periods etc)
The only time i really spend a long time in the sun is with my monthly golfing and even then I take care to have Sunscreen Max SPF and a golf cart so i have mobile shade .
I also try play early morning as often as possible to try and minimize the high noon sun exposure.
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Terms like melanoma are used to group the cancer into a general category. In the case of melanoma it is cancer of melanocytes. You can get 2 melanomas that aren't the same cancer genetically, just categorically.

This is why some melanomas are worse than others. They're not all the same, they're just all in the same category.

We group them because we tend to be able to use the same treatment regiments to combat them because we're targeting the cell type, not the specific cancer cell. This is why chemo is so destructive because it can't discriminate between you and the cancer.
 
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porchrat said:
Terms like melanoma are used to group the cancer into a general category. In the case of melanoma it is cancer of melanocytes. You can get 2 melanomas that aren't the same cancer genetically, just categorically.

This is why some melanomas are worse than others. They're not all the same, they're just all in the same category.

We group them because we tend to be able to use the same treatment regiments to combat them because we're targeting the cell type, not the specific cancer cell. This is why chemo is so destructive because it can't discriminate between you and the cancer.
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The doctor told me that I had the Super bad one and also at a very bad spot (The spot in between where your hair side burns and ear > so very close to the brain ( Got a big war scar that tells the tale , had to get a skin graft ) , and caught just in time to live and tell the tale ( I was told a month or two later without removal would have been too late to do anything about it ).
I don`t read too much about it other than how to prevent it (as far as possible) , waiting for results is scary enough . I don`t want to read too much and scare myself even more.
 
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Zyraz said:
The doctor told me that I had the Super bad one and also at a very bad spot (The spot in between where your hair side burns and ear > so very close to the brain ( Got a big war scar that tells the tale , had to get a skin graft ) , and caught just in time to live and tell the tale ( I was told a month or two later without removal would have been too late to do anything about it ).
I don`t read too much about it other than how to prevent it (as far as possible) , waiting for results is scary enough . I don`t want to read too much and scare myself even more.
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I hear you and know that I don't think little of the pain and trauma involved in cancer. I've seen many close family members go through pain I don't think any human should have to endure. So often it is a case of "if I'd left that lump another 2 months I'd be dead". Cancer can move so quickly.

I'm just trying to explain why it is unlikely you'll get the exact same cancer again. You can get another melanoma but it is unlikely to be the exact same melanoma genetically. You can get another melanoma because your lifestyle likely lends itself to melanoma formation.
 
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porchrat said:
I hear you and know that I don't think little of the pain and trauma involved in cancer. I've seen many close family members go through pain I don't think any human should have to endure. So often it is a case of "if I'd left that lump another 2 months I'd be dead". Cancer can move so quickly.

I'm just trying to explain why it is unlikely you'll get the exact same cancer again. You can get another melanoma but it is unlikely to be the exact same melanoma genetically. You can get another melanoma because your lifestyle likely lends itself to melanoma formation.
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Not lifestyle at all, it basically came down to the fact that I drove a lot and the mole that turned malignant was due to it always being exposed to the sun as its the right side of my face facing the window.
 
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Zyraz said:
Not lifestyle at all, it basically came down to the fact that I drove a lot and the mole that turned malignant was due to it always being exposed to the sun as its the right side of my face facing the window.
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That is part of lifestyle :D
 
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Zyraz said:
I wouldn`t call sitting in traffic jams a lifestyle :erm::p
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It is part of the way you live your life. It is a lifestyle :p

I for example sit at a bloody desk all day in front of a computer. Lifestyle.

There is also likely a genetic element to your melanoma as well I'd wager.
 
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porchrat said:
It is part of the way you live your life. It is a lifestyle :p

I for example sit at a bloody desk all day in front of a computer. Lifestyle.

There is also likely a genetic element to your melanoma as well I'd wager.
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Fair enough , its a lifestyle even if involuntary ...
Yeah probably genetically prone as my dad regularly gets skin cancers on his arm (not sure which cancer) that has to be removed by freezing them on a regular basis.

I was quite lucky in a sense that i even went for examination in the first place.
Went to visit my dad on very short notice (not planned at all) for a bit of a getaway .
He saw the mole and said that i have to go get it checked out ASAP , which i then did to find out if I went just a month or two later it would have been too late.
If I did not go visit my dad ... By now it would have been Game over
 
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Slingshot said:
. Why would anyone want to buy expensive cancer treatments from the pharmaceutical companies?
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Because they have proven it to work. And since most, if not all medical aids cover cancer treatments, they need a product that has a reasonable chance of working.
 
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Batista said:
I dont want to believe it, but a $130 billion /year industry is just that.

Educate yourself : http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/the-cancer-industry-is-too-prosperous-to-allow-a-cure/

Lost my dad to cancer, my wife has a form of skin cancer.R25000 box of pills every 6 weeks...
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You should read these:

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/why-havent-we-cured-cancer-yet/
http://www.crediblehulk.org/index.p...-hidden-cancer-cure-conspiracy-theories-fail/

Health Impact News is a pseudo-science, woo site by the looks of things. Spreads the 'vaccines cause autism' garbage, GMO misinformation etc.
 
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