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Mom not responding to chemo

Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Dec 12, 2022 | Replies (8)

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@asingh90

Hello, my mom had the whipple in July 2020. She was cancer free until December 2021 due to a recurrence in the peritoneum. She had a small procedure to remove the peritoneal nodule. She then had spread to both of her ovaries two months ago in Oct of this year. She was very symptomatic. Our doctors recommended debulking surgery and they were very easily able to remove the ovarian spread. The tumors were huge, but easy to remove once she was in the operating room. It has been two months since then and she is feeling great. She just had her scan, so we’ll see what the internal situation is like when we get the results on Monday, but she is at least feeling back to normal, thankfully. I’d highly suggest you ask your doctors to surgically remove the ovarian tumor. Articles online about Mets to the ovaries also say surgery is very helpful. I can recommend you our surgeon if you like. Good luck!

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Thank you for your response. My mom's tumor is invading the bladder so I think the hope is to shrink it, but with the current chemo, it's not doing that. Good news is it hasn't spread further or gotten bigger as far as we can see. I wish they'd go in and remove it, but I think the plan is to do chemo and radiation upfront to try and shrink the tumor away from the bladder.

I have heard it's very rare for pc to show up in this area. So, thank you for your story. I hope you get good news on Monday. Keep me posted!