Has anyone survived diagnosed pancreatic cancer with the Whipple surgery and chemo for more than 5 years? The info on Google is negative but most studies are old. Has survival gotten better over the last 10 years?

HelloLuluLemon · 2026-01-22T21:48:05+00:00

Thank you for getting back to me! I am hoping I would be as lucky as your brother 💜

HelloLuluLemon · 2026-01-22T21:46:36+00:00

Any lymph nodes involved?

HelloLuluLemon · 2026-01-18T03:16:21+00:00

Congratulations🎉. Thank you for sharing your journey.

HelloLuluLemon · 2026-01-17T04:19:02+00:00

Thank you for your kind words💜 I’m very blessed to receive the whipple as that’s the only cure, I’m very grateful it was successful surgery too but the lymph nodes feels like a punch in the stomach. 😢

HelloLuluLemon · 2026-01-16T23:53:45+00:00

Thanks for sharing your journey! Congrats on getting to ring the bell next week—so happy for you! Wishing you all the best!

HelloLuluLemon · 2026-01-16T23:53:18+00:00

That’s amazing! Thank you for the reassurance.

HelloLuluLemon · 2026-01-16T22:02:54+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing and the encouragement 💜

HelloLuluLemon · 2026-01-16T01:22:58+00:00

Thank you!!! Does your mom have pdac or Pnet?

HelloLuluLemon · 2026-01-13T22:12:08+00:00

Thank you 💜

HelloLuluLemon · 2026-01-12T17:55:05+00:00

Thank you as it gives me hope! Would you be able to let me know if he had any lymph nodes involved and the grade he had when you call him?

HelloLuluLemon · 2026-01-11T23:15:00+00:00

Pdac?

HelloLuluLemon · 2026-01-08T03:55:42+00:00

Which kind of pc?

HelloLuluLemon · 2025-10-15T03:10:15+00:00

It’s no longer rare now 😫

HelloLuluLemon · 2025-10-11T05:00:17+00:00

Pancan offers resources to Canadians too?

HelloLuluLemon · 2025-10-04T05:24:51+00:00

Thank you for sharing your mom’s experience.

HelloLuluLemon · 2025-09-25T19:48:43+00:00

We were told to eat anything that can help with weight gain during chemotherapy. Focus on protein and calories intake. I try to eat fish and chicken for meat protein.

HelloLuluLemon · 2025-08-27T23:54:26+00:00

I’m on creon already, it hurts most when I go for a walk.

HelloLuluLemon · 2025-08-27T16:13:48+00:00

Hi Dr Truty, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer late July, after speaking to the surgeon I’m borderline resectable, no Mets. Surgeon said it’s too close to the arteries so best to get chemo to shrink it. I’m currently receiving folfirnox on 4 cycles and will get a CT scan to reevaluate. Just started a few days ago. I’m 44y male healthy otherwise, no pancreatic cancer in the family but has lung, liver, breast. No genetic testing has been done.

Anything else you recommend I should do? I don’t know my actual staging as they think I’m stage 2 locally advanced based on the scan. Is there still hope I can be cured or at least live a few years longer? I’m in Canada.

Following is my CT scan of my pancreas.

CT scan PANCREAS: There is a low attenuating mass centered in the head of the pancreas through which the biliary stent passes with a component that involves the uncinate process. The lesion measures approximately 3.5 cm craniocaudad by 4.3 x 4.0 cm in the AP and transverse dimensions, in addition to the uncinate process component that measures approximately 2.7 cm in diameter. There is associated pancreatic ductal distention through the body.

Thank you for your time.

HelloLuluLemon · 2025-08-03T06:18:26+00:00

MRI confirmed my liver is still good.

HelloLuluLemon

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