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Here's my experience with Folfirinox. I was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma in Sept. of 23. I started 12 cycles of Folfirinox that ended in early April of this year. I was 74 when I started the chemo. I tolerated it well but still have some aggravating peripheral neuropathy. It's a 3 day chemo session actually. 1st day is the infusion in the cancer center. Then I went home with the pump for 46 hrs. After the pump was off, I forced myself to go to the YMCA and continue my daily long swimming exercise. I'm convinced that helped me more than anything to withstand the chemo. You_have_to try to keep your body strong. When I started the chemo, the last CT scan showed a 7.3 cm X 3.5 cm tumor on my pancreas, several cancerous lesions on my omentum (abdominal wall, I think) and 3 cancerous lesions on my liver. Biopsy confirmed all findings as cancer. At the end of chemo in April, the CT scan showed no evidence of any tumors except one remaining on my liver. My oncologist wants to have another laparoscopic exploratory procedure to check for cancer in my peritoneum and if none is present, proceed with radiation, microwaves or radioactive beads to try and get rid of the tumor on my liver. My understanding is that cancerous nodules/lesions, whatever are extremely hard to detect in the peritoneum with a CT scan. Chemo can be tough. I wish you well, ma'am. Keep your body strong.

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Wow, I am impressed as someone who also went home with the 3-day chemo treatment; I outed after 2 sessions. I think you are right--the swimming was immensely helpful. Good for you, I bet it was difficult some days. I was practically comatose and as I am 84, decided that was enough. A year and half later still OK and enjoying life with 1 radiation treatment (no bad effects) on a mass in my mesentery, not biopsied (dangerous area) but presumed cancerous.