The latest thinking among pancreatic cancer specialist and surgeons is that you have chemotherapy and some radiation ahead of the Whipple surgery and then chemotherapy after the surgery once you recover to pick up anything that was missed the most important thing is that you get a surgeon that specializes in Whipples There are many abdominal surgeons, but not ones that specialize you might wanna look at the medical school of Wisconsin, Dr. Evans, and Mayo‘s Rochester, Dr. Trudy