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Pancreatic Cancer Recurrence after Whipple

Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Aug 29, 2023 | Replies (76)

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Did the Dr's ever consider radiation treatments ?

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No radiation. I did specifically mention that I was willing to go through it if necessary when I was advocating for the more aggressive chemo using Folfirinox. I was reading the latest scientific papers in 2012 when I was diagnosed and the European pancreatic cancer oncology community was doing clinical studies. I was having such a robust response to Folfirinox that they felt there likely be no benefit. And in the end it was the additional chemo cycles that took care of any minimal residual disease.