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Post Whipple Treatment for Stage 1A adenocarcinoma

Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Aug 19 9:08am | Replies (12)

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@montyd

Sounds like you caught the cancer very early. That’s great news. I was diagnosed with the same cancer in stage 1b. My treatment was 6 rounds of chemo and then the Whipple surgery followed with another 6 rounds of chemo. During my surgery, 28 lymph nodes were extracted and they all were clean. I still followed the surgery with 6 rounds of chemo to hit any lingering cancer that may still exists that the scans may have missed.

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Thank you, Montyd for sharing your experience. I did not have any chemo prior to my Whipple as the doctors did not know if there were any cancer cells in the cyst. The oncologist board will be getting back to me next week regarding further treatment with MEK inhibitors to target the BRAF mutation that was found in my cancer. How did you tolerate the chemo? Thank you again!