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39 year old brother

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@mnewland99

How are you doing shelleyderish? I recall your dear husband passed away last year; at the time you mentioned he had some cardiac issues that originated during his childhood. Chemo can be very difficult on the heart. I have an underlying (congenital) electrically based cardiac arrhythmia and when I was on 2 very strong chemotherapy types, it caused a lot of arrhythmia. Luckily I found an excellent cardiologist who specialized in those electrically based arrhythmias and got a good med to stop it; currently Im on only 1 mild chemo (gemzar) following my radiation treatment and I’ll either go into a clinical trial (it’s 50-50 chance you’ll actually get the target drug (6236) or go back on the abraxane which caused neuropathy since my numbers going up aggressively again. Not a lot of pretty choices there! My dad many years ago died after 8 months after we could see he had something serious after his tremendous weight loss and and 5 months after he was actually diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The hurting you are going through must be overwhelming. Please find compassionate comfort in family, friends, and some type of faith, and don’t forget this forum where you can always receive understanding and comfort. God bless.

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Thank you for your kind words. He did have cardio issues and had a cardiologist involved And aHemotologist ,as he had blood clotts from unknown sources Cancer itself can cause that also chemo. However he only had 1 chemo treatment before 1 of 3 heart attacks. We also have the tumour testing done to se if the mutations were any that targeted or trial drug available. Unfortunately there was not for his Mutations. As you know you learn so much over this process some a little to late. We wanted to have a biopsy on his pancreas when a mass was detected 2 years previous. We were told NO it was probably a cyst and that it would be monitored with MRI every 6 months and if it grew it would be biopsied then… unfortunately , when it grew we were told they never seen anything grow so fast and it was to late to do anything.
Know we know ..Listening to that advise by gastroenterologist was our 1st mistake 😢