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Questions for surgeon-considerations choosing PRRT or surgery

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Thanks for sharing. What was the size of your larger tumors? What type of ablation did you have? They did not need to surgically remove any of the tumors from the liver they were able to remove them with ablation? Who did your surgery?

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zacharycat | @zacharycat | Aug 27 11:24am

Surgery was done at Trinity Hospital in Ann Arbor Mich, not at Mayo. All my treatment was there except for PRRT at University of Michigan cancer center.
The primary tumor was pancreatic, about 1.5 to 2 cm as I recall. They did liver ablation with radio frequency but didn't surgically remove anything from the liver so far as I know. The chart says they focused on two large masses in the liver and had "excellent results". Later in the report the surgeon says "No real surprises, just what we expected." Well before any of these other treatments they had also done a hepatic artery embolization to block the blood supply to the tumors.

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