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I had PRRT from May to November, 2024.
At various times I had different doctors, who said different things about surgery. First that is wasn't feasible, then that it was an option but might require two surgeries. I had good response to PRRT with size reduction that made one surgery an option, as confirmed by scan in November. From some reading I've done this seems to be a common sequence.
In March the scan was even better, so much so that I at first dismissed some symptoms I had in late March/early April, 2025. In April I ended up back in the hospital, and the surgeon thought the best option was to go ahead while I was there and he had openings.

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Thanks very much for sharing the background on your treatments. Very helpful. Best wishes to you on your treatments.

In my wife's case, we did the surgery first, removed primary from lower pancreas, removed spleen, gall bladder,ablated some of tumors on liver. This reduced our our tumor count by about 70%. Our team then recommended 3 cycles of PRRT, which further reduced what was left to only the liver. At that point our team recommended a liver transplant, as the PET scan only showed at that point tumors in the liver. After multiple 2nd opinions, she had the tranplant in January 2025.