She said she's 'fighting for her life.'
Woods didn't go into any more detail on Instagram about her diagnosis, but she did elaborate a bit more in an interview with entertainment website, It was there, she revealed she is battling stage 3 melanoma cancer, and that it is spreading. She also told them that she is currently “fighting for her life.”
Stage 3 melanoma is an advanced stage of the potentially and often deadly skin cancer. According to the ACS, stage 3 melanoma cancers have already spread from their original place on the skin to the lymph nodes at the time of diagnosis.How common is stage 3 melanoma? Compared to Stage 1, when the melanoma is confined to the skin, Stage 3 specifically, is even more uncommon,
According to Dr. Leffell, the prognosis of stage 3 melanoma is much better than in the past—but it's still not great. As of 2018, Stage 3 has a survival rate close to 70% at 5 years. As comparison, Stage 1 melanoma has a greater than 96% cure rate.
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