Ampullary cancer: What are the chances of surviving?

Posted by micamica69 @micamica69, Apr 17, 2022

Hello..please ..age 29 man. Please talk about the chances of surviving this disease.

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@colleenyoung

Hi @richjh, I see that you posted an excerpt from this journal article:
- Treatment Patterns and Outcomes for Patients with Ampullary Carcinoma Who Do Not Undergo Surgery https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10378072/

Have you been diagnosed with ampullary adenocarcinoma? What treatment(s) did you have?

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I was diagnosed in November of last year. I lost my appetite and lost 15 pounds through the holiday season. Then in March I told my oncologist is this normal and she said NO. A CT scan showed that my tumor not only stopped growing it started shrinking.
I have not been on any therapy, chemo, targeted, immunotherapy absolutely nothing. I do have advanced MS. I was diagnosed in 1984 and my last exacerbation was in 2003. I am rated 100% service connected by the VA.
My wife has an interesting take on the situation. She feels that my hyper MS immune system came roaring back and is attacking the cancer. I think you can put a name on what is happening and that is called Spontaneous Regression of my cancer. I feel like I’ve won the lottery of life. I feel great and another CT scan is in a month.
Rich

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