What exactly are the symptoms of metastatic melanoma?

Question

What exactly are the symptoms of metastatic melanoma, and in how much pain would someone be who suffers from it?

Many thanks.

Answer 1

Metastatic melanoma is by definition, a secondary cancer. You cannot have a metastatic melanoma without having a primary melanoma.

Metastatic comes from the word "Metastasis." A Metastasis is the spread of cancer from its primary site to other places in the body. A good example would be someone who has malignant melanoma (a bad type of skin cancer)....this is the primary cancer. If that cancer spreads (metastasizes) to the lungs, then you now have a secondary cancer in the lungs which is called a metastatic melanoma.

Having said that, there are really no clear cut symptoms for metastatic melanoma...the symptoms really depend on the location of the secondary cancer. For example, if your primary cancer spread to the brain, a symptom could be headaches and dizzyness. If you do not already have cancer, then you do not need to worry about metastatic melanoma. Best of Luck!

Answer 2

Melanoma is an overly detrimental and unpredictable disorder and we would not have an powerful healing for it. If there are one million-three nodes concerned the five yr survival fee is 50% if there are greater than three it's 25%.