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Marilyn - This morning my wife found the following discussion at a Mayo Clinic link. The intended audience is medical professionals and the topic is "Optimizing outcomes for patients with non-metastatic pancreas cancer". The discussion was recorded in February 2023 and is up to date, as opposed to many similar presentations/discussions that are somewhat dated. The four physicians panelists are associated with the Mayo Clinic.

One's ability to understand and follow the discussion depends on extent of familiarity with medical terminology and pancreatic cancer. I post it here in the event it helps you in your immediate decision making, as well as to make others aware of this very helpful discussion. (As a former health professional [RN/MICParamedic] who left that career in the late 1980s, I can follow most but not all of the discussion.) Give it a look. It's quite informative IMHO.

https://medprofvideos.mayoclinic.org/videos/optimizing-outcomes-for-patients-with-nonmetastatic-pancreatic-cancer

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I look forward to watching it. So appreciate you sharing this with me, thank you!

Thank you so much. This video is excellent for those with early stage (nonmetastatic) disease. I spent several hours watching, looking up some terms and taking notes.
My takeaway is chemo and radiation therapy first and postpone (or forego) Whipple unless or until scans and biomarkers indicate expected outcome of surgery outweighs the burden of this surgery.