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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFormer US Senate Majority leader Harry Reid has undergone surgery to remove a tumor from his pancrea
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BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)him a really good chance of a recovery. I hope they aren't giving us BS. Pancreatic Cancer is normally a death sentence. I have lost several friends and family member to this type of cancer. Harry is a good man and leader.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)this sucks. Wish him well,had a family member suffer from the same. Oh so painful and remeber the Chemo treatment was pure ugly. He lasted eight months after his last Chemo,the Cancer attacked his skeleton.
PCIntern
(25,347 posts)That I will take a handful of Ambien and a glass of good scotch and call it quits.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)siblings and her parents to Brain,Lung,and Panaceas Cancers. We keep a bottle of Ambien in the draw as well as a quart of Royal Crown in the Pantry.
No friggin Chemo for either of us. Five is enough.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)sunRISEnow
(217 posts)I hope they got it soon and I am wrong.
gademocrat7
(10,623 posts)I wish him well in this very difficult fight.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)The dismal general survival rates are reportedly because less than 20% of pancreatic cancers have been found before they spread; most of them are already unresectable when discovered. That's seemingly not the case here...
malaise
(267,838 posts)Pancreatic cancer is the worst.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,273 posts)My partner had a neuroendoncrine tumor on his pancreas. If you are going to have a tumor on your pancreas, that is the type you want as it is highly treatable with surgery. Major surgery.
Or, if you are Steve Jobs, you ignore your doctors recommendation until the highly treatable neuroendocrine tumor spreads. To this day, the media says Jobs died from pancreatic cancer which, while true in the broad use of the term, is not the the nasty Pancreat Adenocarcinoma that kills 95% in five years.
That said, if he is receiving chemotherapy, it is probably the bad adenocarcinoma.