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How long do you live with terminal pancreatic cancer?

How long do you live with terminal pancreatic cancer?

Potentially Curable If Caught Very Early For patients who are diagnosed before the tumor grows much or spreads, the average pancreatic cancer survival time is 3 to 3.5 years.

How is my dad doing with pancreatic cancer?

My dad was diagnosed in February with incurable pancreatic cancer it has spread to his liver. I live near my mum & dad and my one sibling my brother lives 140 miles away. I have a really tough job 2 kids and a mega busy life and am finding it hard to support my mum. She is struggling to deal with my dads deteriorating psychological state.

What kind of cancer does my dad have?

Its been 15 months now and still going strong. My dad has just been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. It spread to dudenom and liver. He had an internal bleed and we nearly lost him but docs saved his life that’s before the diagnosis.

When was my mum diagnosed with pancreatic cancer?

Hi my mum 67 was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in June 2015, with mets to liver. Prognosis was bleak – she could not have surgery and was placed on pallative chemo.

Is the cancer in my dad’s lungs inoperable?

Although it hasn’t spread the doctors have said that it is inoperable and, having been asked the direct question, have said that this will kill him. There is also the possibility that there are secondaries on his lungs but these are currently too small to be identified so the results of his lung CT are said to be ‘inconclusive’.

When did my dad find out he had pancreatic cancer?

My dad was diagnosed with pancreatic ca and liver mets in March. He was given 6-12 months, but I can’t see him hanging around until September. The decline hasn’t been linear. But, to cut a long story short, he was an active 71 year old and is now in a hospice, jaundiced, confused and if he knew what was going on, he would be mortified.

Its been 15 months now and still going strong. My dad has just been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. It spread to dudenom and liver. He had an internal bleed and we nearly lost him but docs saved his life that’s before the diagnosis.

When did Bill Bastian find out he had pancreatic cancer?

The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Bill Bastian was caught completely off-guard when a doctor told him that he had pancreatic cancer and would only have 15 months to live. It was August 2015 and Bastian had thought the pain in his belly was due to something he ate.

Although it hasn’t spread the doctors have said that it is inoperable and, having been asked the direct question, have said that this will kill him. There is also the possibility that there are secondaries on his lungs but these are currently too small to be identified so the results of his lung CT are said to be ‘inconclusive’.