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@stageivsurvivor

In reading your post, I’m confused as you say you had the Whipple and now you have recurrence in the head. The Whipple resects the head of the pancreas and the remnant pancreas consisting of the body and tail are attached to the jejunum. Did you have a distal pancreatectomy (tail) and now recurrence is in the head or is the recurrence in the body that was attached to the intestine as part of the Whipple?

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I had the Whipple, they removed the head of my pancreas’s, part of my stomach and small intestine. The disease came back where in the space where the head of the pancreas was.