Hello, I had an endoscopic ultrasound last Thursday and three biopsies were taken from a lesion in the tail of my pancreas. I am now waiting on the results. Doc will call me with results, very soon I hope waiting is the worst. He gave me a referral for...
Hello everyone, last week I had the primary diagnosed as pancreatic cancer, the primary initially could not be found, my sister died from this awful disease almost two years ago. The secondaries are in the liver and duodenum, I will start chemo on September...
Hi, I was diagnosed with suspected pancreatic cancer last Thursday with unknown primary cause. I experienced severe chest pain since July, treated with antibiotics for 7 days without resolving the severe chest pain and re-admitted to the A&E the second...
Recently diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. I have a cancerous lump in the middle of my Pancreas. Too big for immediate surgery therefore started chemotherapy to try to shrink it. Had 2 sessions up to now. Have been suffering with quite severe backpain...
Hello, I'm new here, just needed some help. My 55 year old brother was diagnosed on Monday. I'm thinking he may be late stage as he was in hospital for a week with jaundice, they fitted a bile stent and that's when they found the tumour. He's also got...
Hi my partner has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer 10 days ago! in March this year he was admitted to hospital and was told he had a tumour on the pancreas stage 1b since then he hasn’t had any treatment or help just given morphine for...
My partner was diagnosed in June and has had a horrendous time with one thing or another, pretty much vomiting most days and just sleeping. Had first chemo Monday, just wondering how you all cope watching your partner suffer and any tips?
Hi, I'm looking for travel insurance to go abroad to Spain?. I have just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and wont likley start any treatment until August after my biopsy. Has anyone got any details of where to go and waht the likeely costs will...
Good morning….im at a loss really. My brother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer end of March and was fortunate enough to have whipples procedure, but needs chemo as 2 out of the 29 lymph node’s where positive. He’s done really well recovering from...
Hi everyone. I just joined this forum and looking at some of the posts I wish I'd done so sooner as there is some very helpful and supportive stuff here. I had a Whipple procedure in August last year (2023) followed by 9 sessions of Folfirinox and have...
