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I am a 92 yr. Old woman and was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer 4 months ago, with a prognosis of 6 months to a year left. I chose not to have chemo because of my age. I do not want to go through the pain and suffering of chemo to get an extra 3 months, if I am lucky. Nor do I want to put my family through that. A CAT scan last week showed that the tumor had doubled in size and is wrapping around the artery to my left kidney and spleen. I have lived a good and long life and want to leave this earth with dignity. I am going to have a Neurolytic Celiac Plexus Block this week to hopefully relieve some of the pain and discomfort I am starting to have. Have any of you had this procedure, which is done with an endoscopy? I will let you know hos the Celiac Block goes.👍
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I am 75 and was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in September 2024. I had the block in Octotober and they said it may wear off. So far so good. It took that terrible back pain away and I also wear a 12mg Fentanyl patch. I was on chemos gemsar and abraxane. They took me off the abraxane because of the awful after effects. They gave me a brake from gemsar because my Magnesium was very low, my glucose was 231 and my platelets were 58. The low for platelets is 150. I finally went back to chemo last Thursday, with a lower dose of chemo and have this week off but they want me to come in to check on my platelets. My Tumor was 7.2 cm and shrank .67 inches since October but my cancer is wrapped around the celiac axis and the body plus the tail. Onc. said I am inoperable and will not survive this disease but will not tell me how long I have. Good luck to you and I appreciate your decision not to have chemo because it wreaks havic with your body.