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Surgical options for borderline resectable/locally advanced tumors
Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Mar 1, 2023 | Replies (63)Comment receiving replies
@colleenyoung, we have not gone to Mayo yet - her flight is next Saturday! She will have a week of appointments/consultations, along with a laparoscopy performed by Dr. Truty. Tomorrow, she will have her extra chemo session (as recommended by the Mayo team), but besides her usual frustration with chemo, she is doing very well! She even put on a couple of pounds and has been cooking almost every day. Me...I am very anxious, about both the chemo session and her consultations at Mayo. I'm praying her CA 19-9 numbers are lower tomorrow and that they'll continue to drop with that extra chemo session. I am EXTRA worried about what Dr. Truty will say after he does all his examinations.
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Hello, I wish you good luck at Mayo Clinic! Hopefully, the endoscopy will show good news that the surgery can take place. In the event that the surgery cannot happen, Sloan Kettering has been working a lot with using high dose radiation on tumors such as your Mom's that are too close to major arteries to operate on- and the great news is that there results so far are showing that survival rates using this level of radiation therapy are very similar to those that get the surgery! If Mayo tells you that surgery is still not possible, I would definitely suggest consulting with Sloan Kettering in New York about this high dose radiation therapy option. I wish you the best of luck!
Please see this link: https://www.mskcc.org/news/high-dose-radiation-offers-hope-people-inoperable-pancreatic
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It seems most helpful to me to take it one day at a time, too many possibilities when I try and go out into the future, provokes all kinds of worrying.