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Advice needed about my Mom

Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Mar 20, 2023 | Replies (23)
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skiball,

So, you doc recommends resection, but you disagree.

Perhaps a second opinion? Go to a major center?

If the second and third doc recommend resection, would you still disagree?

Are you tracking CA 19-9?

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skiball | @skiball | Mar 16, 2023

Thanks. I have gotten 2 second opinions. One at MUSC in Charleston, SC, the second at Mass General in Boston. Charleston felt the Whipple was not necessarily inevitable, Boston felt I should have it prophylacticly as my UPMC Pittsburgh doctor has recommended. My CA19-9 is extremely low, single digit.

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