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In reply to the discussion: Sarah Hershberger comes home to die [View all]Hassin Bin Sober
(26,325 posts)The survival rate is between 95-100% if treated with surgery.
My partner was diagnosed with one in December last year. He had the surgery in January. The surgeon who removed my partner's pancreas tail and spleen (due to shared blood vessels) explained they don't classify them as malignant or benign. They look at what they are doing (spreading?).
But they ALL should be treated as malignant because, as you pointed out, they don't respond well to chemo.
They are very slow moving so they tend not to be metastasized when they are detected. Some refer to them as "cancer in slow motion".
Steve Jobs, before he died, acknowledged that he fucked up. He was too "smart" for his own good and opted for juice diets and green tea when his doctors were saying he needed surgery. By the time he relented, he had liver and stomach involvement.
Quackery and Jobs did Jobs in.