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Title: Good Luck Rough
Post by: Damo on July 02, 2015, 07:02:03 PM
Meant to be a top bloke and a dead set star on the field.

Hope you beat Jack The Dancer !

http://m.afl.com.au/news/2015-07-02/hawk-roughead-has-melanoma-removed-from-lip
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: Francois Jackson on July 02, 2015, 08:18:47 PM
Here here. Seems like a great  bloke
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: mightytiges on July 03, 2015, 06:23:41 PM
Here here. Seems like a great  bloke
x2.

All the best to him.
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: (•))(©™ on July 03, 2015, 06:39:32 PM
Yeh.Get well and come to Punt road
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: 🏅Dooks on July 03, 2015, 07:20:28 PM
Skin cancer on the hip?
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: Penelope on July 03, 2015, 08:20:29 PM
lip
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: 🏅Dooks on July 03, 2015, 09:16:36 PM
lip

Gotcha makes more sense
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: YellowandBlackBlood on July 03, 2015, 10:43:18 PM
Dangerous place to have a melanoma. Can spread quickly from there.
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: Hellenic Tiger on July 05, 2015, 04:11:55 PM
Good luck Rough. God Bless You.
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: Damo on May 17, 2016, 07:11:56 PM
It's back.

Cancer is a bas-tard

Good luck again Rough you star
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: Francois Jackson on May 17, 2016, 07:26:12 PM
that sucks hey


Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: cub on May 17, 2016, 10:39:43 PM
poo news for the bloke and his family, good luck to him
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: YellowandBlackBlood on May 18, 2016, 06:19:29 PM
Terrible news. As I posted above, the lip is so vascular, a cancer like melanoma will spread so quickly that by the time you notice it, it is likely to be too late.

I was very surprised that he came back so quickly last year with just an excision of the lesion performed. I would have thought he would have gone through a course of the preferred chemotherapy used these days at the time too. I would now be pushing for early use of MK-3475 if he can get it.

Once melanoma has spread the picture is grim.
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: Stalin on May 19, 2016, 10:39:30 AM
Terrible news. As I posted above, the lip is so vascular, a cancer like melanoma will spread so quickly that by the time you notice it, it is likely to be too late.

I was very surprised that he came back so quickly last year with just an excision of the lesion performed. I would have thought he would have gone through a course of the preferred chemotherapy used these days at the time too. I would now be pushing for early use of MK-3475 if he can get it.

Once melanoma has spread the picture is grim.

Dam
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: Francois Jackson on May 19, 2016, 01:27:19 PM
Terrible news. As I posted above, the lip is so vascular, a cancer like melanoma will spread so quickly that by the time you notice it, it is likely to be too late.

I was very surprised that he came back so quickly last year with just an excision of the lesion performed. I would have thought he would have gone through a course of the preferred chemotherapy used these days at the time too. I would now be pushing for early use of MK-3475 if he can get it.

Once melanoma has spread the picture is grim.

hey doc how much do these drugs cost? Ronny Walker has been heard talking about some drug he used, so i would presume it has plenty of zero's in it.

Why dont they put it on the PBS??

Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: WilliamPowell on May 19, 2016, 01:49:02 PM
Terrible news. As I posted above, the lip is so vascular, a cancer like melanoma will spread so quickly that by the time you notice it, it is likely to be too late.

I was very surprised that he came back so quickly last year with just an excision of the lesion performed. I would have thought he would have gone through a course of the preferred chemotherapy used these days at the time too. I would now be pushing for early use of MK-3475 if he can get it.

Once melanoma has spread the picture is grim.

hey doc how much do these drugs cost? Ronny Walker has been heard talking about some drug he used, so i would presume it has plenty of zero's in it.

Why dont they put it on the PBS??

Think it has been Angus, earlier this year

Up until then it cost $250k - $500k a treatment
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: Francois Jackson on May 19, 2016, 04:10:29 PM
Thanks WP

that would explain why ive heard more and more people using the drug this week.

So  why wasn't it on there earlier? Does it cost that much to produce?

Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: YellowandBlackBlood on May 19, 2016, 05:45:41 PM
PBS application occurred in March 2015 and was granted PBS listing on September 1st 2015.

Its trade name is Keytruda.
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: YellowandBlackBlood on May 19, 2016, 08:57:47 PM
Just like to add that at this point in time, Keytruda is only indicated if you are at Stage 3 or 4 (advanced / unresectable) melanoma.

Hopefully he isn't quite at that point. :pray
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: Francois Jackson on May 19, 2016, 10:13:30 PM
so let me get this right

ronald was taking the pill and was actually paid top dollar at that time?

Yet he fought the good fight for us average australians to have it listed on the PBS?

If so he is a dead set legend, no question about that.

I respect people like that a great deal.
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: WilliamPowell on May 20, 2016, 06:55:18 AM
so let me get this right

ronald was taking the pill and was actually paid top dollar at that time?

Yet he fought the good fight for us average australians to have it listed on the PBS?

If so he is a dead set legend, no question about that.

I respect people like that a great deal.

Yes Mr Walker did that, but he campaigned with a lot of other people including leading doctors etc

But he certainly was the most high profile of those, also helped that he is a major financial backer of the political party that approved it for the PBS. ONLY (IMHO) because he had the contacts, didn't have to go through department after department (read read tap).

He did a great thing
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: mightytiges on May 21, 2016, 03:05:42 PM
Cancer is a bas-tard

Good luck again Rough you star
Well said and best wishes to Roughy.

The thing with Cancer is you see people go through all the horrible chemo and radiotherapy and it can still cruelly get them in the end or, if they do recover, there's no knowing if it'll return or not. As you say Damo, it's a bas-tard of disease.
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: YellowandBlackBlood on December 06, 2016, 06:22:59 PM
Roughy had an excellent response to the immune therapy. He is now melanoma free which is fantastic news. I can tell you he really suffered with the therapy but he looks to have come through it well. Best wishes to him and his family.
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: dwaino on December 06, 2016, 09:17:11 PM
That's awesome news.
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: Francois Jackson on December 06, 2016, 09:21:34 PM
good news for the kid and just in time for :xmassign
Title: Re: Good Luck Rough
Post by: (•))(©™ on December 06, 2016, 10:16:24 PM
Good stuff