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After reading the article and about half the comments it struck a nerve with me. As I have commented before, I was a 24 year, stage four melanoma patient. I was fortunate to have been sent to the Northern California Melanoma Center in San Francisco. It was a group of dedicated oncologists, surgeons and research nurses working to find a cure for the disease. They were certainly not shills for the pharmaceutical companies. I was involved in every clinical trial for melanoma except for the B-raf trial. Never once did I do any chemotherapy. All the trials were aimed at stimulating my immune system to fight the cancer. The very first trial was a drug called Levamasol, it was a bovine medication which I could have purchased at the feed store (sound familiar?) and as you could imagine, it didn't do shit. Every other trial I received did enough to keep me ticking until some researchers solved the puzzle. First, it was the drug Ipilimumab which shrank my tumors then the drug Nivolumab which killed the cancer. Nivolumab flipped the switch on my immune system and allowed it to identify the cancer cells and attack them. With early detection, no one should die from melanoma! This drug is also being used to treat 18 different cancers. I'm sure I'm going to piss off everybody on this thread but if you get melanoma, go to your oncologist and get some form of Nivolumab and enjoy the rest of your life. If you try and beat it with ivermectin, fengendazole, or fish oil, you might get lucky, if not your dead meat. Big pharma is no doubt corrupt at it's highest level but there is a lot of dedicated Docs and researchers out there trying to find cures. I'm living proof.