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Patrice Aminati Says Targeted Therapy Has Stabilized Her Metastatic Melanoma

YES!CON recognition highlights her advocacy as oral targeted therapy has put her disease into a reportedly stable phase under close clinical monitoring and family care.

Overview

  • Aminati told reporters during events this weekend that she is in a "stable phase" and that medication can for now "hold the metastases in check," comments first reported on Saturday.
  • She is taking an adjuvant, targeted oral therapy at home and travels two to three times a week to hospital clinics for blood tests, scans and skin checks to monitor the disease.
  • Doctors have said a complete cure is not possible in her case after metastases were found in multiple organs including liver, lung, bone and brain, a fact Aminati has publicly acknowledged since her 2023 diagnosis.
  • Aminati relies heavily on her parents for daily childcare and logistics while balancing treatment, and she announced her separation from her husband in December as part of recent personal disclosures.
  • Her YES!CON appearance and the 'Ring of Courage' award underline her push to destigmatize cancer and raise prevention awareness, while her experience shows how targeted drugs can control late-stage melanoma without eradicating it.