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My surgeon says not laparoscopic or robotic. He said he will do it the old fashioned way. A cut from the bottom of my ribs to my belly button! I have heard they can do it laparoscopic but my surgeon won’t. It could be because my tumor is sitting on a major blood vessel.
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marviak9,
The usual reason for not doing Whipples laparoscopically is the lack of training of the surgical team, and the lack of sufficiently advanced surgical theater and equipment.
While the survival rates are close to the same, reportedly, the post operative infection rates are better with laparoscopic approach.
Please consider going to a major pancreatic cancer center.