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Ed was diagnosed with Melanoma in Dec 2021. The melanoma attached to his lymphnodes. Previously these lumps could be removed through surgery. Ed now has 2 lumps in his lung/chest cavity which cannot be surgically removed. 

Ed has gone through radiation on his chest and where one lump decreased minimally in size, the other grew.

 

Eds best chance is Immunotherapy. 

Medical aids do not cover this treatment. 

 

He needs 4 treatments. 

Each treatment is approx. R160 000 (give or take).

 

This Back-A-Buddy fund is for 50% of the Drug costs for treatment. Quote available for verification. Keytruda is one of the latest developments in immunotherapy – which is not chemotherapy or radiation therapy – as these new treatments works with your immune system to help fight certain cancers. Immunotherapy is providing new, innovative treatment options for certain types of cancers

Eddie needs our help to get funding for immunotherapy. Diagnosed in 2021 with stage 3 melanoma which had formed tumors in his lymphnodes he has be fighting the dreaded C since. Melanoma does not always react with chemotherapy so all he has been able to do to this point is surgically remove the tumors and go for radiation treatments. Most recently the cancer has spread to the lymphnodes of the lungs which cannot be surgically removed. He has had radiation treatments which the PET CT scan showed has not been successful. 1 tumor grew while the other shrank minimally. Our only hope is immunotherapy which has shown very promising results in the medical trials. Unfortunately our medical aid does not cover this at all. We have gone through all the funding requisitions and have managed to get the cost down to R82 000 which is still out of our reach bit with your help we hope it will become possible. 

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