I started having kidney problems in 2015. My fistula was put in in December of 2015. It is now about 5 years later and I am not yet on dialysis. My last GFR was 16. I was on the kidney transplant list at Mayo and at Nebraska Medicine. Because of a recurrence of pancreatic cancer, my name has been removed from both lists. I go back to Rochester in October for another PET/MRI scan. If the tumors are growing I will have to have chemo. I have been told that because of my kidney problems, I will have to have dialysis 1 hour after every chemo treatment.