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Pancreatic Cancer Group: Introduce yourself and connect with others
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Hello. My name is Brad and I am a 55 year old band and CTE teacher. I was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma on May 27. I should say I read my test results. I am waiting to meet with an oncologist on June 5.
I started with pancreatitis in mid March and had several attacks during that time. I don’t drink or smoke so the doctors here at Mayo looked deeper when they did the endoscope procedure that uses the needle. They found a mass along with a cyst at the neck of my pancreas. According to Dr. Mills, this is something they would not have found for a long while as it didn’t shop up on CT cleans.
I have used Dr. Google in absence of having had my first consultation and the long term prospects are not as good as I wish they were.
Currently I have NO symptoms. No pain, can eat anything I want, am holding my weight(after losing 21 pounds this spring).
I came to this forum to hopefully get some inspiration that some can be cured if this is caught early. I go in for a chest CT tomorrow morning so they can verify that the cancer started in my pancreas. My hope is they caught it super early, but I have been hoping for many things this spring and very few have worked out with this issue.
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Hi Brad,
I hope they have caught it early .. I don’t think they can really tell anything for sure until they do a biopsy . I wish you the best for your upcoming appointment.
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Welcome to the PanCan club - the club nobody really wants to belong. A lot of strides have been made in extensions of life with pancreatic cancer. Any cure is dependent on the type of cancer you have, and your mutations. Please find out as much information as you can, but being from Mayo your dr will be forthright about your treatment plan. I’ve had distal pancreatic cancer since 2022, when I was 65 years old. 1 lymph node had cancer. Not all times are easy, but if you are a fighter and have a good attitude (and faith) you’ll hopefully be able to work as much as possible and carry on. My chemo treatments work and then stop working and in my case it metastasized to my liver which we treated with MRIdean radiation. Completely understandable that you want to know as much as possible about your diagnosis, and you’ve come to right place, but it’s a little premature to give too much feedback since much is dependent on the type of cancer and mutations you have. Everyone here has your back, so please be sure to post when you get the specifics, but really you are in good hands with Mayo!