After almost 3 years of fighting this disease I noticed theres a point where the physician no longer sees the ability to overcome this as possible. Those are horrible words to hear and I'm very sorry you have to deal with that now. I can see that just as frustrated as we are to fight our disease, so the physician becomes frustrated as well and no longer sees us as a person, but as another failed statistic. It's hard on them too and they can become insensitive. There is the rare case where the physician wants to push for your own good and not for their own case studies and recommends procedures that are not of the typical SOC (standard of care). I heard about histotripsy through this site and when my soon to be oncologist mentioned it as part of her speech at the Pancreatic Walk for Cancer earlier this year; no dr recommended it to me; it was my sister and husband reading up on it that pushed me to do it and,it had positive results. We got the fight in us and we are a cohort pushing through to extend our lives and we can gain this through this online forum by sharing results until a cure is available. Party on Garth!