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Pancreatic Cancer | Last Active: Nov 22, 2023 | Replies (157)Comment receiving replies
Did your tail tumor size decrease significantly? Did they find it in the lungs because they were looking for it or did you have symptoms?
I’m always afraid it’s going somewhere and we won’t realize unless he has other symptoms. It had metastasized to the liver when he started.
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My CT last month showed that the tail tumor has significantly decreased in size; in fact, it said there is no evidence of disease recurrence. The lungs were found because I had some nodules on a CT done to see what happened after having not smoked for 15 years; then PET scan showed a problem with my pancreas which trumped the lung nodules. The lung nodules some shrank and others disappeared in response to the chemo.
As my oncologist explained I will always be a stage 4 pancreatic cancer patient because there will always be some minute cell wandering around that could cause a recurrence so monitoring will be needed.
The only symptom I could relate to would have been mid-back pain just before the diagnosis & that was attributed to "arthritis". That is why this is still so surreal.