Your Stories: Conquering Cancer

College. Senior Year. A cancer diagnosis. Before graduation, a crash course: Cancer 101. The student and patient, Addison, quizzes her doctor, Jason Luke, on the life-saving thesis he drafted on using immunotherapy as part of her cancer treatment. College, senior year, a cancer diagnosis. Before graduation, a crash course, Cancer 101. Student and patient, Addison, quizzes her doctor, Jason Luke, on the lifesaving thesis he drafted on using immunotherapy as part of her cancer treatment. What did it feel like to be diagnosed with melanoma when you were 21? It's kind of funny, I didn't really know what melanoma was. And I told my mom. And her reaction was probably more significant than me hearing it myself. And she found within the day the best melanoma specialists in the area on his day off. And I was seeing him by that afternoon. And so you went forward and had standard treatment with surgery and they took out a lymph node. How did that all go, and what did you think about that as you're going through? Mel