{"id":2497,"date":"2022-08-10T21:51:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/blog\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2022-09-16T17:06:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:06:03","slug":"a-quarter-of-century-later-john-santoliquido-is-cancer-free-of-metastatic-melanoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintjohnscancer.org\/blog\/melanoma\/a-quarter-of-century-later-john-santoliquido-is-cancer-free-of-metastatic-melanoma\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quarter Century Later, Metastatic Melanoma Patient is Still Cancer Free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Diagnosed in 1997 under the late Donald Morton, MD, and attending physician Richard Essner, MD, John refuses to see anyone else when it comes to his Stage 4 cancer treatments.<\/h2>\n

Meet John Santoliquido; an extraordinary man whose keen love of life found himself advocating for nothing less than the life he wanted. <\/span><\/p>\n

John’s care team was comprised of the late Donald L. Morton, MD<\/a>, whose legacy pioneered the sentinel lymph node biopsy, which projected the Cancer Institute amongst the best in the nation for melanoma cancer care, and Richard Essner, MD<\/a>, a peer of Dr. Morton’s, and now program co-director of the Melanoma, Skin and Soft Tissue center of excellence at Saint John’s Cancer Institute. John purportedly remained a patient of Dr. Essner even while Dr. Essner made a switch to Cedars-Sinai, and when Dr. Essner returned to Saint John’s Health Center to become the program director, John did as well. “It’s<\/span> just nice being back here at this location because it really is a whole group working together for my best outcome,” John explains in his video vignette (below). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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John Santoliquido has been cancer-free for 25-years of stage 4 metastatic melanoma.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Listen to John tell his story<\/h3>\n