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Old 08-11-2015, 02:08 PM   #8
Lien
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Re: Melanoma

Hi Janis,

Not fun, this. My best friend is a dermatologist and she says there are quite a few new treatments that are keeping more people recurrence-free after a melanoma diagnosis. So it seems your melanoma is out of luck: it will have to go and never come back.

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Jacqueline
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