Really the 'standard' approach in curing this cancer is with meds and surgery.  Some of the most difficult is in the reconstructive.  Skin and/or bone graft.   There are melanomas (lip?) sarcoma (beneath the skin but not involving organs).   Sometime radiation for lymphoma.   So the good news is that eyes ears nose and throat guys can usually handle anything that may be left about as easily as a tonsilectomy or goiter procedure.  I think.   An enterologist can easily handle the other end.  Some people are just more susceptible to cancer.   What happened with your mum?   Adenocarcinoma is (colo rectal) and beyond what I know from pre-med. Is not carcinoma so far so that is good. In this case a reduction in total tumor mass is the ultimate goal, so i think this is going well.   The doctors know how to treat this like the back of thier hand. He may well be over the hump as far as tumor removal goes. It sounds like your enterologist has no bedside manner, in reiterating that it's agressive.   I read about a fellow who lived 13 years with 2 surgeries and 3 chemotherapies with metastasis.  Talk about aggressive cancer.   My dad's now got cancer that's spread to his ribs and I know that all they can do is just battle it back.   ... View more

It's hard to help pain. some patients will respond to zantac in ammounts similar to your ordinary dosage of tums. Personally, I think medical marijuana (thc) is better.  flower or pill   I'm new here.   you may (or may not) also see my previous post regarding PC   I worked for a year at an oncological center doing clinical pathways. The Center for Health Outcomes and Economics.   CHOE We tried to adhere to the system of SIBEM II ... View more

Yeah its a dillemma. Sounds like this patient needs a couple of specialist surgeons an endocronologist to handle a radical pancreatectomy as well as a lymph node specialist. neither is a kake procedure my personal experience is with liver nodes, sarcomas etc for a patient with this level of seriousness (I would consider stage IV) a operation or series of operations are architectured to redisign this part of the chest area. I would also recommend a regimine of taxol or other strong chemo. this will of course cause hair loss and type one diabetes. pancreatic cancer is grouped as a very agressive cancer and should be considered that the surgeries be completed within 6mos of diagnosis. Sorry for the news.   ... View more