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💜 Surviving Pancreatic Cancer for 3 years and beyond 💜

Posted by azsunshine7 @azsunshine7, Dec 12, 2025

Advancements in medicine have resulted in an increase in life expectancy.

If you are willing, please consider sharing your personal experience to assist others facing the diagnosis who want to hear your story.

Have you successfully survived pancreatic cancer for a duration exceeding three years?

What was your diagnosis at the time of discovery?

Was the cancer classified as localized, regional, or distant?

What treatment plan was implemented in your case?

Did your treatment regimen include surgery and chemotherapy?

What additional treatments or health regimens did you adopt outside of the medical treatment plan?

What was your overall health status at the time of diagnosis?

What is the current stage of your condition?

Do you possess a genetic mutation associated with pancreatic cancer?

Please reply if you have additional questions I didn’t ask as well.

Interested in more discussions like this? Go to the Pancreatic Cancer Support Group.

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azsunshine7 | @azsunshine7 | Dec 23, 2025
In reply to @hotelkilo1 "I owe my life to my oncologist at the Indiana University Hospital in Indianapolis." + (show)
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I owe my life to my oncologist at the Indiana University Hospital in Indianapolis.

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@hotelkilo1

That’s a very kind thing to say!

Best wishes for you! 💜

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ardithbjorge | @ardithbjorge | Dec 30, 2025
In reply to @azsunshine7 "@ardithbjorge Did you say you are going to get a second opinion at Mayo? I would..." + (show)
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@ardithbjorge

Did you say you are going to get a second opinion at Mayo?

I would recommend asking about all of the options available. Make sure to ask a lot of questions regarding treatment plans and the chemotherapy choices you can consider. Do they offer radiation? If not what’s the reasoning behind it.

In my case, I met with a cancer center and then with Mayo. Neither mentioned radiation.

I did ask the cancer center I consulted with before Mayo about the proton radiation but they said the treatment would be Whipple and chemo. I did not ask why.

For me I would only work with an oncologist specializing in my cancer.

Wishing you the best!

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@azsunshine7 Yes, I did go to Mayo and they said the same thing as my local doctors—-6 months of folfirinox followed by Whipple. No need for me to go back to Mayo because I do not want to do Whipple surgery, either at Mayo or at home. And I didn’t get past the first treatment of chemo. I appreciate your answer that you were told the same thing as I was at both the cancer center and Mayo. I will listen to the radiation doctor, but I am pretty sure I will not do that, either. I’d rather take my chances on feeling as well as I can for as long as I can without any treatment. Even if I went through the treatment, my chances of surviving the cancer are only 30%. Not worth the risk in my opinion. At 84, it’s quality over quantity.

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