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Can radiation be given between finishing chemo and having Whipple?

Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Jun 21 7:29am | Replies (21)
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@mnewland99

Forgive my ignorance, I’m probably not understanding the term correctly of no evidence of tumor at survey, but what did they remove then? Did you mean after they removed the dead tumor and tested it?

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ashley2235 | @ashley2235 | Jun 12 8:50am

So during surgery there was no tumor there anymore. Just the tumor bed, where it had been. Chemo and radiation had obliterated the entire thing. Every day while I was on the radiaton table I visualized the tumor being blasted into oblivion. And I guess that's what happened. My CA19 had normalized 5 months prior to radiation, as well as no PET activity. So it was essentially dead and gone.

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