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I had NO idea: - gailtate - 10-29-2021
Admirable kid, to say the least. And tough.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/Tanner-McKee-beat-cancer-at-age-16-Now-he-s-16573735.php
RE: I had NO idea: - BobK - 10-29-2021
Quite a story. Had no idea either
RE: I had NO idea: - 82lsju - 10-29-2021
it is mentioned in the article linked in this thread from Dec 2019
https://thecardboard.org/board/showthread.php?tid=18641&pid=262996&highlight=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deseret.com%2Fsports%2F2019%2F9%2F15%2F20750826%2Fstanford-football-quarterback-tanner-mckee-mormon-lds-missionary#pid262996
[quote]When Tanner was a sophomore in high school, Layna happened to notice a mole on her son’s upper forehead that was obscured by his dark hair. Concerned, Layna took Tanner to a dermatologist, who conducted biopsies on his head, chest and back. The one on his head tested positive for melanoma. Skin cancer runs in the family — Tanner’s great-grandfather had died of melanoma.
“At first we didn’t know if it had spread to his organs,” Jeremie recalls. “He was just 16. We wondered, ‘Is his football career done? Are our lives going to totally change? Are we going to have to battle this for a long time?’”
Layna and Jeremie were referred to an oncology surgeon at UC-Irvine, who recommended surgery to remove the mole as well as two lymph nodes in his neck as a precautionary measure to ensure that the cancer had not spread.
The doctor removed a piece of skin the size of a quarter surrounding the mole and the two lymph nodes and a plastic surgeon worked to minimize the scarring along his hairline.
Before the surgery, the McKees offered many prayers and held a special fast involving extended family. Tanner also received a priesthood blessing from his father.
“We turned the outcome over to the Lord,” Layna says.
When she walked into the recovery room after the surgery, she gasped at the sight of the portion of her son’s shaved head and a red, four-inch incision which “looked pretty gruesome,” Layna says.
As soon as the anesthesia wore off, Tanner smiled and made a throwing motion with his arm, letting his mom know that everything was fine.
“Tanner is resilient and doesn’t get rattled,” Layna says.
Because of that experience, Tanner says he always wears “a ton of sunscreen with zinc” while he’s walking for hours every day in Brazil. He goes back to the dermatologist every six months. In June, he had a dermatologist appointment in Curitiba.[/quote]
RE: I had NO idea: - bbm233 - 10-29-2021
I too had a melanoma removed a few years back - and the prognosis is really at two extremes: if it is caught early and removed at the surface location, long-term life expectancy is unimpacted. However, if it has spread by the time of detection, it is a very hard cancer to beat. To check for spread, they take extra tissue around the tumor (thus the big scar) as well as the lymph node(s) that is associated with the part of the body where the melanoma was found, and they analyze them for evidence of cancer. If the pathology comes back clear you are cancer free and can look forward to seeing your dermatologist regularly for a visual scan and the occasional biopsy (in my case, this is annual and takes no more than 10 minutes because I have relatively few moles). Tanner is lucky his mom noticed the change, and took action. Early detection saves lives, and Tanner is living the slip, slap, slop lifestyle: slip on a shirt, slap on a hat and slop on the sunscreen.