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Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Dec 24, 2021 | Replies (12)

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@caryns

Not sure about cyberknife since I never had it but I just recently had a Whipple after 8 rounds of chemo and 28 radiation treatments. They had hoped mine would shrink away from the vein and it did indeed shrink by half but never disengaged. At one point my CA 19-9 was as low as 7 but after the biopsy following surgery they found there was still quite a lot of cancer there. They ended up grafting a bovine vein because none of my useable veins was right. I really hope your husband's low CA 19-9 and the shrinkage means they have killed most of the cancer and that you get an answer on your cyberknife question.

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Thanks for your willingness to talk about your surgery and treatment..it helps those of us facing the same. Tomorrow my husband is due to have the Whipple procedure. But as you have said surgeon doesn't know what he will encounter until he gets in there. It seems with this disease there are new daunting prospects on going. My husband had a similar course to you prior to surgery. I hope we can continue to share information on recovery from surgery. Thanks.