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Steveron, that’s going to be a personal choice by you relative to yes or no on radiation. Drs seem to have different attitudes about it. I’m with UCLA and even when I asked about HIPEC radiation their response was a “no” as they felt the intention behind it was out of date. Many others on this thread have received it and it can be achieved with success in some cases in keeping one cancer free. I’m just not willing to take that particular risk especially since I have the KRAS12D, ATM, and TP53 genes which are a little harder to beat and the likelihood of cancer coming back is a bit higher. The question I would ask anyone with pancreatic cancer who has had (radiation) is how many years since and did the cancer come back? Personally and since I’m doing well on it, am sticking with my biweekly GAC chemo treatments until a worthy clinical trial comes along.

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Marienewland, Thanks for the info. We are finding lots of different opinions. Best wishes for continued good progress.