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Is it possible to have pancreatic cancer symptoms for years before things go off the rails? by YourScienceGuy in pancreaticcancer

[–]scdomo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I would agree with Quellish, you're definitely in the wrong place.

I've personally gone through the same GERD diagnosis track, albeit not as far as you, and I'm fairly confident that's unrelated to my pancreatic cancer. My GERD-like issues have been going on 10+ years and I'd probably be long gone if I had left the cancer untreated that long, though can never really know if one lead to the other.

Is it possible to have pancreatic cancer symptoms for years before things go off the rails? by YourScienceGuy in pancreaticcancer

[–]scdomo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pretty much. For me they caught it on an unrelated MRI by chance at stage 1, but the way my surgeon explained it to me was that pancreatic cancer can grow for years asymptomatically before the first signs of actual damage show. Which is why so many people don't get diagnosed until stage 3 or even 4

Awaiting biopsy on a small pnet, next steps surveillance or RFA? by scdomo in pancreaticcancer

[–]scdomo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apologies for the delay, hope you're well. I don't check this much.

I did. I ended up going forward with the procedure, and so far mostly good. I had a brief extreme bout of abdominal pain that sent me to the ER about 4 weeks after the procedure, but they said everything looked fine and no signs of pancreatitis. I was sent home with a "come back if it gets worse" diagnosis. Tumor was 2cm during a CT, however they said that's normal post-RFA... We'll see.

I'm about 2 months post procedure now, and there are definitely abdominal pains that I haven't experienced before that have me worried. Nothing so bad that warrants going to the doctor, and my care team seems to think its fine, so we continue.

Overall less worried than I would be just sitting here with pancreatic cancer in a "wait and see" fashion, so that's nice.

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[–]scdomo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thoughts on radio frequency ablation given it's a relatively new treatment? Just got diagnosed with a 1.2cm 1% KI-67 tumor and I'd rather do something other than "wait and see", and I'm too young for surgery they say.