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39 year old brother

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@shelleyderish

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 😢

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Yes, it’s a battle of having cancer that’s difficult to beat unless you have the BRCA or something similar mutations and dealing with drs who are not gods and make plenty of mistakes! As cited many times in this site in order to last long you must be vigilant and advocate for yourself and have a faith to keep your strength. I got the bracelet below from doing the 5K PANCAN walk this weekend. My son joined me in the rain, no less but rain didn’t matter because I had been dying (ha ha) to do this walk for the last 2 years to hopefully raise money for research. I encourage everyone in this site who feels able to do these events to raise awareness and money for pancreatic research. It’s a national event.