whipple surgery
kneesox
Member Posts: 1
My brother had whipple surgery the first of July and initially the surgeon said he had gotten all the cancer and that following repeated evaluations from pathologists, that the type of cancer they found is unknown and the surgeon explained that chemo is not good idea since they don't know the type of cancer they are dealing with. Cat scan last week shows reappearance of tumors. Doctor described it as aggressive and recommends chemo.
Interesting to note is that he had a cancer of unknown primary origin 16 years ago (surprisingly found lump in neck - lymph node area). The doctor who treated him at that time, pretty much hit him with all kinds of chemo to attack all types of cancer and it was obviously successful!
I just don't understand how cancer can not be cell specific. Any thoughts?
Thanks, Kneesox
Interesting to note is that he had a cancer of unknown primary origin 16 years ago (surprisingly found lump in neck - lymph node area). The doctor who treated him at that time, pretty much hit him with all kinds of chemo to attack all types of cancer and it was obviously successful!
I just don't understand how cancer can not be cell specific. Any thoughts?
Thanks, Kneesox
0
Discussion Boards
- 119.2K All Discussion Boards
- 5 CSN Information
- 5 Welcome to CSN
- 119.3K Cancer specific
- 2.7K Anal Cancer
- 424 Bladder Cancer
- 297 Bone Cancers
- 1.6K Brain Cancer
- 28.1K Breast Cancer
- 377 Childhood Cancers
- 27.7K Colorectal Cancer
- 4.6K Esophageal Cancer
- 1.1K Gynecological Cancers (other than ovarian and uterine)
- 12.6K Head and Neck Cancer
- 6.2K Kidney Cancer
- 643 Leukemia
- 767 Liver Cancer
- 4K Lung Cancer
- 5K Lymphoma (Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin)
- 217 Multiple Myeloma
- 7.1K Ovarian Cancer
- 35 Pancreatic Cancer
- 477 Peritoneal Cancer
- 5K Prostate Cancer
- 1.1K Rare and Other Cancers
- 521 Sarcoma
- 693 Skin Cancer
- 633 Stomach Cancer
- 190 Testicular Cancer
- 1.5K Thyroid Cancer
- 5.7K Uterine Cancer
- 6.2K Other Discussion Boards