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Why surgery first vs chemo/radiarion first?
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I would say you have excellent doctors bad doctors would want to have you do chemo and other things first what happens then you become weak and it even gets to the point in some cases where they won’t do the operation because you’re now too weak.
Let this excellent doctor do his full Whipple operation and then sit back and see if you need the chemo and radiation.
I had to Whipple first and needed no chemo or radiation afterwards they tested me for two years afterwards trying to see if I really needed any chemo or radiation, I didn’t that was in 2013 all has been well since then! Good luck and Godspeed.
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Thank you for that post. As I understand it I will have Chemo as soon as I recover from the surgery and the testing of my tumor is done to determine what Chemo I will have. As I have a high number of cancer markers in my blood, they are completely sure the tumor is cancer and not a benign growth.
And I guess if I understand things that the surgeon will look for other places where the cancer has spread first and if he sees any he will abort the Whipple. I have decided I am in for one surgery and one round of Chemo.
Your post does give me hope and I think others as well. Hope you never have another cancer.
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Congratulations! What a great story. They must have caught your cancer early. Need more stories like yours!