Hiya. I had a melanoma lump removed from an armpit lymph node as well as 29 other lymph nodes which all came back clear. So in my brain, cancer free...
They have now offered me Immunotherapy. Foolishly I was initially excited about this as it sounded very natural, using your own body's immune system to hunt stray cells, and I pictured someone skipping through fields with a butterfly net just scooping anything they find up. Well, having down more research, it seems more like a tank ploughing through the same field indiscriminately shooting at anything it wants. So I'm now a bit confused as to what to do. In my head I'm now left with a choice: Take therapy for a year which will cut down chances of it coming back from 25% to 12.5% (How comes its never phrased as you have a 75% chance of being ok?) but risk 20% chance of really *** serious side effects and 1% death or don't have the therapy, go super healthy, cross fingers it doesn't come back but have nothing attacking the rest of my body...
I already feel unlucky in this as the melanoma came from a stage 0 mole that was removed so its pretty *** so far.
Also scared that as I am Autistic/ADHD-y I have a tendency to hyperfocus on things and watching for symptoms that could lead to really bad things may cause me huge mental worry and be super negative.
Sorry, just needed to get stuff down. Not sure what I am looking for.
