CLEVELAND (WJW) — Jennifer Frederick never thought it would happen to her.
She was 49 and active — until a strange lump turned her world upside down. What she initially thought was a pulled muscle ended up being Stage 4 metastatic malignant melanoma.
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“I was driving there and I picked up my phone and it said ‘metastatic malignant melanoma.’ And I was like, ‘What?’” she recalled, after reading the diagnosis in a MyChart message.
The news only got worse. Sitting beside her husband, she was told the cancer had spread to her lungs. Then came another gut punch — scans revealed it had also reached her brain…