Based on a reply elsewhere from @markymarkfl, about his own experience, my sense is that it's just too easy for the detection devices we now have to miss tiny stray bits of cancer. This is why I had planned to insist on having chemo after my Whipple, which was on 10-5-23.

(It now looks as tho I won't have to insist, bc the path report suggests that the surgeon wasn't able to get everything. I'll see my onc. in two weeks, but based on what the surgeon said last week, it seems that radiation and more chemo are in my future.)

Do take my assertion (that one should insist on post-surgical chemo) w/ a grain of salt -- I know almost nothing about this disease and about treatment. But based on what I've absorbed from reading some of this site, I can't see any reason for a young-ish person in reasonably good health *not* to get chemo after surgery, given the recurrence rate of this cancer and the speed with which it seems to recur. (Obviously there are individual health anomalies that make post-surgical chemo a bad idea for some, but I'm not talking about the portion of the population that isn't eligible for such reasons. And I'm not ignoring the fact that chemo is powerful poison with serious side effects, so one has to balance the pros/cons very carefully.)

Perhaps talk to a volunteer at pancan.org or the NPF? Someone at one of those orgs sent me articles that addressed a different question I had.

Also, Colleen (moderator; director of Connect) recently shared a link, in another thread, to a helpful article about treating pancan; I went to the newsnetwork (the section in which the article was posted) and entered "pancreatic cancer" in the search field. Perhaps run your eye over the headlines of the results, or try a different search term?
https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/search/?search=pancreatic+cancer