New patient, I just posted in another forum, however, I should introduce myself. I am 63 years old, female, married 39 years, 2 adult children, one grandbaby and one on the way. Started in January/February with some gastric issues, really thought it was gastritis. Had 2 "attacks" after eating large meal. Luckily my son's best friend's Dad happens to be a gastroenterologist. One text later, I got in to see him. He is former director of GI at a local hospital who opened his own practice and surgery center. Blood work (showed elevated liver enzymes) and ultrasound showed gallstones. Next endoscopy and colonoscopy, both clean. He then ordered an MRI to be sure, well found a 5.5 cm cyst on the tail of my pancreas. He then referred me to Dr. Michael D'Angelica at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NY. Thank god....CT scan and he believed it to be a benign cyst. Scheduled surgery for 5/29/24. Surgery was a distal pancreatectomy; spleenectomy and removal of gall bladder. Unfortunately, pathology showed one lymph node removed out of the 23 as being positive. I am now awaiting the referral this week to a medical oncologist at MSK. Currently stage 1 per pathology. Based on my reading and the surgeon, he said probably 6 months of chemo.