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Originally Posted by liquid!
Yeah, pancreatic cancer is hard to catch early and has a low survival rate. Very rough diagnosis. Sorry to hear about that Fatty.
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Thanks. We actually got her into a very progressive clinical trial last fall when she was diagnosed with stage 3B cancer and couldn't even stand up due to the pain. The tumor was inoperable and wrapped around her blood supply. Her blood screens showed cancer levels so high that her doctors didn't think she would make it through treatment.
Today, after some very hard months of treatment and lots and lots of weight loss, she is in remission, thanks to the gene therapy trial she enrolled in. The main cancer level reading has gone from 19,000 at diagnosis to 240 this past Friday and it continues to drop. She looks great and has returned to a healthy weight. Even her doctor is giddy-ecstatic.
As you probably know, there is rarely any such thing as remission w/ pancreatic cancer. 99% of the time, you get it, then you die, so this is the best result we could have hoped for, regardless of what the future brings.