In 2007, Ed was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma~twice in the same place on his leg. Surgery did the trick both times. For three years he has been seeing his oncologist at the University Medical Center in Tucson, AZ, about a 2-hr drive one way, which also is a melanoma research center. The first 2 years he was being seen every 3 months, and after that every 6 months. With all the blood work and various tests they found him to be "cancer free."
The Fall of 2010, he began to have some discomfort in his back. More tests revealed that the melanoma had returned in the form of a retroperitoneal mass (tumor) about 5" in size in his back. This time it's not operable. So begins our present journey.
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