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I was diagnosed with stage 1B in early May of 2025. I have gone through 12 weeks of Abraxane and Gemstar chemo. My CA119-9 was at 360 in May and is now down to 80. I'm curre3ntoly being treated at Scripps in San Diego. My tumor has partially encased the blood vessels in my pancreas, so I was told I was not a surgery candidate. My oncologist now recommends 5 and 1/2 weeks of radiation with once-a-week Gemstar chemo. He said this should give me a couple years of regression and when it comes back, they would do the 5-day radiation treatment with the linear accelerator device. I'm not sure what to do but am in conversations with Mayo, UCSD, UCLA in addition to Scripps. I now have very increased neuropathy from the Abraxane and have to take Creon before every meal. I'm 75 years old and in reasonable health. Not sure what to do at this point. Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated.

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Take a look at surgeon Mark Truty at Mayo Rochester. From is online bio: "He is specifically sought out given his novel approaches to preoperative treatment of these tumors in order to improve outcomes after surgery as well as his willingness and technical skillset to offer curative intent operations for patients with more advanced tumors that other surgeons have deemed inoperable due to tumor involvement of critical blood vessels."