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23. Pancreatic Cancer

Sun Jul 8, 2012, 01:37 AM

Jul 2012

I had an aunt on my mom's side die from that. I was fairly close to her, and I learned what I could learn about it.

A whipple procedure in April for pancreatic cancer diagnosed in January doesn't make sense. Because of the function of the Pancreas and the nature of the bile duct any cancer there metastasizes quickly and spreads. It would be surprising that a person that wasn't receiving treatment was even still on their feet in April. If he was diagnosed with operable pancreatic cancer in January, he should have been under a surgeon's knife in January. The cost versus his life isn't even a consideration for an otherwise healthy 43 year old man. Did his Primary Care Provider fail to explain this to him?

My aunt lasted two months. If it wasn't for palliative surgery, she would have been in even more intense pain that last part of it.

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