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@pkappy Since you were prescribed Lynparza, I was wondering if you have either the BRCA 1 or 2 mutation? And is your pancreatic cancer an Acinar cell type? My understanding Lynparza is it targets the BRCA 1 or 2 mutations and works with Acinar cell pancreatic cancer better than the ductal cell type. I'm coming up on 3 yr. survival with acinar cell pancreatic cancer and Lynparza was not effective.
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Yes. I have BRACA 1. I'm not sure about the type. I'm sorry it did not work for you but 3 years is great so something is working for you. I think having the BRACA gene really saved my life since their is a specific target medicine fore this. I should have known, but I never thought about it, but everyone on my mothers side (her 3 sisters and 4 brothers and their children all had cancer of some sort or another. I just never paid it much mind until I was diagnosed at 56. It stopws with me since I have no children.
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