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Patrice Aminati Issues Brief Update as Cancer Progresses

A short Instagram message confirms she remains in palliative care for metastatic melanoma while she focuses her remaining energy on caring for her young daughter.

Overview

  • Over the weekend (Aug. 8–9), Aminati posted a short Instagram story saying “I live still / I live gladly” and thanking followers while explaining her recent silence.
  • She wrote that her medical situation has not improved and that she cannot answer messages because she is giving her strength to her daughter.
  • A summer MRI showed some metastases are not responding to ongoing therapy, prompting clinicians to add radiotherapy to her treatment plan.
  • Doctors at University Hospital Dresden determined a promising experimental therapy is not available to her because her human leukocyte antigen (HLA) profile is not compatible with the treatment.
  • Aminati’s update follows a multi‑year fight that has left her fatigued and symptomatic and underscores the limits of current options for stage‑4 melanoma when tumors are widespread and HLA‑matched therapies are not possible.