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treatment for liver mets
recap: my wife had aborted Whipple 7/22/24 due to SMV involvement. We decided on SMART radiation therapy for 9/6/24, but this had to be cancelled...
Help with low albumin numbers
Hello everyone, my Mom has advanced pancreatic cancer and is currently on an immunotherapy/vaccine clinical trial. Her latest blood results last week showed very low...
Successful treatment of recurrence?
I had successful treatment in 2021, completing in 2022. Whipple, adjuvant Folfirinox 6 1/2 months, brief SBRT for undetermined hazy mass in pancreatic bed. I...
Protein Powders, Calorie Boosters, Appetite Stimulation?
Hi, all. Looking for recommendations on protein powders, calorie boosters, appetite stimulators. My father has metastatic disease and has been off of therapy for 2...
Advice needed about my Mom
Hello everyone, my Mom was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer (arising from an Intraductual Oncocytic Papillary Neoplasm) in July 2020. She had...
Negative Turn in a Long Journey
I was diagnosed with PC in March 2023 just after my 60th birthday, and have frequently checked this forum, read most of the posts and...
Success stories and working
Hi All, I am new here. I was diagnosed last year with Pancreatic Cancer (adenocarcinoma). I had a distal pancreatectomy with splenectomy and was staged...
New diagnosis: locally advanced pancreatic cancer
I'm new to the Mayo board, but not a Mayo patient and not in MN. This week I received a new diagnosis of locally advanced...
Tumour on pancreas 6cm, tumour markers 120,000: Need advice
My husband had a mass on pancreas 1-1/2 yrs ago but we were told to leave it and monitor by mri. 9 months after last...
PARP inhibitors and Maintenance Drugs
I have stage 4 pancreatic cancer and have just completed my 11th round of chemo. I have a BRCA2 gene mutation. So far, the chemo...
Options for Peritoneal Mets
Hi I had FFX prior to whipple but cancer came back and I am now a stage 4 PDAC patient with peritoneal mets. I had...
Histotripsy: My experience
"Histotripsy uses a transducer, which converts energy into sound, to deliver pulsing ultrasound waves to a malignant mass at a precise location. When those waves...
Questions about maintenance chemotherapy
After 6 rounds of chemo and my gallbladder surgery, my pancan stats are looking good--so of course, now I have more questions! As a reminder,...
Biomarker mutations question
Hello I recently had the Tempus 684 gene panel done to identify biomarker mutations. I would be interested in hearing from others who have had...
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