Hello, I just joined this forum. I was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer by Mayo on Mar 31st last week following Endoscopic US, then had CT this past Friday. Report shows there are metastatic lesions on my liver, spleen, duodenum and pancreatic head. We believe we will be told it is stage 4 since it has metastasized to the liver. I am no stranger to cancer, had Hodgkin's stage 3b with chemo and radiation in 1993 while in college. The treatment cured me and I have been able to live a blessed and wonderful life. Unfortunately, the radiation that saved my life due to Hodgkin's created new challenges down the road. In 2016, due to tissue deterioration caused by the radiation, I had my Mitral and Aortic valves replaced at Mayo Clinic Rochester. During that time Mayo also discovered a mass on my left Adrenal gland called a Pheochromocytoma. Apparently very rare condition and can be very dangerous. Had the Pheo removed in Jan 2016, then the valve replacement surgery in March 2016. I've been doing great following those surgeries until now with the Pancreatic Cancer diagnosis. I'm 48 years old and my family and I are ready to fight this with everything we have. I am so thankful for Mayo and have seen 1st hand what they can do. We're anxious to learn our treatment path. I've done some initial reading and we are hopeful I can become a surgical candidate eventually with Dr. Truty or one of the other surgeons at Mayo for the Whipple procedure. I will try to revisit once we learn more about our treatment path. God Bless you all, Joe

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