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Sorry to hear of all your troubles. That is frustrating. Clearly something is going on, but I just read a lesion that size has a good chance of being benign and that cancer in the uncinate process is rare if that’s of any comfort. Your CT was 6 months after the EUS, but maybe it will turn out to be some sort of irritation from the pancreatitis and not a cyst. I will tell you two years ago my CT showed an incidental finding of a 7 mm cyst on the head of my pancreas. My heart sank. You never want to hear anything about your pancreas. Then I had an MRI MRCP and there was no cyst found with the explanation the CT was averaging density with a fatty deposit outside the pancreas. False alarm. Phew! One year later a CT still showed a normal pancreas. Great! Now, a year after the CT I just had an MRI MRCP (in a high risk monitoring program due to BRCA2 mutation) and it showed the main pancreatic duct is 2.5 cm dilated (should be < 3 mm). Not good! There is also a blurred spot that is possibly a cluster of cysts. So now I’m scheduled for an EUS on 2/6. Scary? Yep! I’m female 67. I’m already in treatment for breast cancer and neuroendocrine lung cancer so I don’t need to add to my cancer collection. Hopefully you will now have an MRCP or EUS to verify the CT findings and I hope it turns out to be nothing. We can go thru our little scare together. Praying for a good outcome for both of us.

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Thank you for your response. It has eased my anxiety some. I'm sorry for your troubles but you seem to be attending to your issues. Hoping for great outcomes for you.
I guess my concern is that all the tests done were more advanced than the last CT and going from nothing to a 1.2 cm growth in 5 months has me confused. 5 normal test then one abnormal in 5 months? When the Gastrointestinal Dr. found nothing on the UES he referred me for a MRCP and said he wanted to have the best test verify his findings. Negative findings so I pretty much forgot about it. Crazy. I guess I best get ready for more testing. Good luck on your upcoming testing.