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Hi My brother was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer 4 weeks ago. Last week it spread to his spine so it has affected his mobility. He is only 53 years old. I am very close to him and just want to support him as much as possible. Unfortunately...
Hello. My son was diagnosed with pancreas cancer at Christmas when he became acutely jaundiced and was admitted for emergency common bile duct stent. Then it got infected and he developed sepsis. He had had chronic diarrhoea six weeks now and lost about...
Hello My Mum has recently been diagnosed with late stage Pancreatic Cancer. She was jaundiced, following the usual tests confirmed the cancer is inoperable and has spread to liver and likely other places. This is still very new information and very...
Hi just over 3 weeks ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, liver, lung and retroperitoneal lymph node mets. I also have a PE and currently a chest infection. I've gone from being a perfectly normal acriveish 51 year old to being unable to...
Hi everyone , new to the group and need support ... My partner who is 48 was diagnosed with stage 4 in Oct 2021 ...it has now gone everywhere ...two brain tumors, liver ,one kidney and his left hip is crumbling away :( ... Also to top it all has a...
My beautiful mum has just found out she has secondary PC in the form of numerous lesions in her lungs. She had Whipple in 2020 and an elevated ca19 blood test flagged up a CT scan. She's refused palliative chemo because she is feeling so well. The best...
Morning all, I hope you guys are all doing ok and coping. My Dad has been prescribed morphine recently for ongoing chest pain stemming from his lung mets and yesterday this has been swapped to patches. In others experiences, how did you find morphine...
Hi all. My husband was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer that had spread in December last year. He has had one cycle of Folfirinox and he reacted very badly to it. Just starting now to eat slightly better again. He didn't want to have Folfirinox...
Long story short, following a Whipple op in Aug 2020 I had 12 cycles of Folfurinox. Got the all clear May 2021 only for it to return with liver metastases. Just completed another six months of gemcitabine/abraxane and scans show no change from Jan scans...
Hi, I’ve recently just finished chemotherapy after having had a Whipple’s procedure in August last year, and have an appointment with my U.K. oncologist on the 11th May. I had completed 17 of 18 planned infusions of gemcitabine (plus capecitabine for...
