Hi, I'm a carer for my husband who has advanced melanoma stage 4 with abdominal metastases, no mets outside his abdomen on the previous scan in December. For about the last 6 weeks He gets a high temperature and coughing and vomiting approximately every 6-7 days for 1 day but is reasonably well with no fever, cough or vomiting in the intervening days. I wondered if this pattern is usual for advanced melanoma? We seem to have a bit of a difference of opinion amongst the specialists with one suggesting a scan to look for infection and the other saying this intermittent fever is probably cancer related. I wonder if in your experience this just indicates cancer progression or should we be looking for other causes such as infection? Thanks.
