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Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: 3 days ago | Replies (7)

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Where are you seeing your Doctor ? It took 6 Months and many, many scans before they finally said they were going to do surgery. His CA-19 results kept rising and then all of a sudden they tripled. They could not see anything on the scans at all. They kept saying they did not think it was Cancer but he had lost 30 lbs and was not eating. We finally went to see Dr. Yoe at Jefferson Hospital in Phila. He looked at all of the Scans and the CA-19 results. There were many indications that there was something going on in the Pancreas. They thought possibly pancreatitis but he was not in any pain at all. There was a ton of inflammation. Dr Yoe suggested doing a Distal Pancreatomy to see what was going on. They found a fairly large tumor that was in the body and tail of the Pancreas. He said all of the inflammation was hiding the tumor. The Cancer was also in 14 of the 20 lymph nodes that they removed.
You really need to go to an Oncologist that specializes in Pancreatic Cancer. I have found that no matter the good intentions that Doctors have, you have to really advocate for yourself or your loved one.

Prayers that you get an answer soon .

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I'm sorry to hear that you and your family are going through that. Did your husband have any bowel problems, changes or colors in his stove or jaundice? Cuz the only thing off on my blood work is my lipase liver seems fine. Stool color seems fine. I don't have any jaundice.