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I, too, might be alarmed with a recommendation for a three month gap between CRT or CHT and what it sounds like is Whipple surgery.

I don't think it is unusual for a shorter gap ... are you certain it was three months and not three weeks?

Is your medical care at a pancreatic center of excellence? If not, please consider quickly being evaluated at one of these ... pancan.org can provide assistance in identifying one. My recommendation is to relocate to one of these centers for all of your treatment - including chemo and surgery.

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I won’t be totally off the chemo for three months. I will be taking a Chemo pill durning the five weeks of Radiation.
The doctor I’m seeing is the top Pancreas cancer surgeon who does the most surgeries in New England and is at Mass General Hospital.
I also would like to add I have a rare form of Pancreas Cancer called Acinar which is less aggressive that the other type of pancreas cancers.
https://www.massgeneral.org/doctors/16840/carlos-fernandez-del-castillo