Diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer: How to deal with anxiety of surgery?

Your first consult should not be your first chemo session. Oncologist will have to run through with you the chemo available to you - administered intravenously or orally. If it is a month after surgery, I am not sure if the biopsy report is ready - if that is, he will also run through that with you. Oncologist may also outline what devices to be put in to facilitate chemo administered intravenously - a Port-a-Cath or a Hickman line. You can Google these. The devices have to be inserted about a week before chemo - usually done under LA, relatively painless and it is a day-surgery. I do know of people starting chemo about 4 days after the Port-a-Cath was put in.
Hope that helps.

I am replying to your original comment on being anxious ..I think you are very fortunate to be considered to have surgery due to the fact that it has not spread. That is very very positive .., the fact that chemo is a consideration is another positive .. so my advise is try to replace the anxiety with feelings of gratefulness. Most pancreatic cancer patients find out to late to have surgery, and sometimes to late for chemo . So as difficult as this is… you are one of the lucky ones and the process will be inconvenient but I am so happy for you that you have options which equals time