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Negative Turn in a Long Journey

Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Nov 13, 2025 | Replies (106)

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I would go to MSK immediately. They have so very many more trials than Yale and many more KRAS trials going on. We also attribute my husband’s survival partially to his exercise - he was in great shape until this hit out of nowhere -has started his 4th year on Gemabraxane regimen, now biweekly. There was a trial drug added in the very beginning that didn’t pan out. But he has been Stage 4 metastasized to the liver since the beginning. We believe the main tumor in the tail was killed by radiation back in February, something that they didn’t believe possible until early this year. As you know, all the latest science is not available at Yale first. And it can take forever to get scans and tests, etc. Not so at MSK. Just dive in. As you know, time is of the essence. You’ve been through so much already. Gods Bless
Also, they are very willing to tell you where another trial is available if they think it’s the one for you.

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Good advice @gracect. MSK would be my choice also, if I lived on the east coast. Did your husband have a targeted radiation like MRIdean, or the generalized radiation? Did he avoid neuropathy being on the gemabraxane, and do you know and are willing to share his mutations? Lots of questions, but 4 years on that chemo regimen is incredible! I think @199 has been on that long term, also.