Pancreatic cancer

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Have a neighbor, Jim, that keeps to himself. I don't talk with him much, he is a racist...and beats on his wife, Taylor. Jim is an alcoholic.
Few years back he was diagnosed with throat cancer. He went for one round of treatment (radiation and/or chemotherapy...might have been both) and decided to walk away from it.
Month or two ago Taylor told my wife that Jim was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. He recently started treatment for it.
Taylor called yesterday, they were at the hospital. Jim had vomited repeatedly. Started having dry heaves etc. Hospital kept him for observation.
I only know of one person that had Pancreatic Cancer, from diagnosis to death was only 2 or 3 months.
Who here has any experience with Pancreatic Cancer? Taylor has some mental health issues...as well as some heart troubles.
 
Steve Juliano had it but lived several years after the diagnosis.
 
There's Alex Trebek. Probably getting the best treatment on the planet. And involved in experimental treatment too.
 
Who here has any experience with Pancreatic Cancer? Taylor has some mental health issues...as well as some heart troubles.
Only the basics. Neighbor across the street had it. The basics are that the percentages depends a lot on where on the pancreas the tumor begins. On
one end there is a decent chance of successful treatment, on the other end succesful treatment is relatively low.
Might find more info here.
www.pancan.org
 
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Ruth Bader Ginsberg had it. Got the best treatment tax dollars can pay for.

My dad lived about 5 months after diagnosis and the care his insurance would pay for.
 
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if he had throat cancer, and now he has pancreatic cancer, where else is it?
 
Racist alcoholic wife beater. Save the medicine and hospital bed for someone that deserves it. Wheres the karma emoji?
 
My good friend Jimmy got diagnosed and was givin 6 months....he died in 4.
A Fucken horrible death.
 
My mom got it 12 years ago.
They gave her 6 months.
She died after about 2 months.
 
I've lost 3 of my best friends to that miserable disease. None of them made it more 10 months.
 
Mom was diagnosed Easter week of 2000. Made it just past labor day that year.
 
My neighbor across the street son in his 50s got it. Didn’t make it a year lost a ton of weight from treatment. Said his son prob wouldn’t choose the chemo treatment again if had a 2nd choice
 
It is one of the worst types of cancer, no doubt. Sounds to me, tho with his past history, he's not good at taking doctor's orders.
 
Survival rates between the two main groupings is radically different.
Less common.
Survival Rates for Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor

More common, and often found late except for one form that causes noticible symptoms earlier (such as jaundice)
Survival Rates for Pancreatic Cancer

Ginsberg's tumor was found early as a result of a scan looking for something else. It was small and in a location they could easily cut it out.
 
Who here has any experience with Pancreatic Cancer?

its usually a death sentence because its usually caught so late.

have a friend in Va. that had it he is like 72 years old. they caught it real early because of another problem he was having.. dr said it will eventually kill him because there is now cure for it but as of now i think its been 2 years he is testing clean.. chemo and radiation. he is in good shape though which i'm sure helps also.. he is back to everything he was doing before all the treatemt
 
People judge me all the time. I dont care what you or anybody think.
Hes got the hillbilly trifecta. Hope his pain suffering and agony is off the charts.
Everyone cares what others think, they just say they don't. Well maybe a Tibetan monk or two has shed the ego and vanity entirely. But my point was you heard a story on the net, took it as fact and went into the negative.

back to cancer....
 
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Not "everyone" sorry. I went into the negative? I gave my opinion on the POS. I have no reason to not believe Doug, it's his neighbour.
You may not like my harsh words, but the guy deserves exactly what hes got. I wish the same agonizing death for all the scum like him.
Everyone cares what others think, they just say they don't. Well maybe a Tibetan monk or two has shed the ego and vanity entirely. But my point was you heard a story on the net, took it as fact and went into the negative.

back to cancer....
 
People judge me all the time. I dont care what you or anybody think.
Hes got the hillbilly trifecta. Hope his pain suffering and agony is off the charts.
I dont wish pain and suffering towards anyone. However I agree with you on the karma statement. An alcoholic racist wife beater gets very little sympathy from me. I don't know the guy hate to hear his prognosis but very little sympathy. My sympathy goes towards his family.
 
His family's doing cartwheels.
I dont wish pain and suffering towards anyone. However I agree with you on the karma statement. An alcoholic racist wife beater gets very little sympathy from me. I don't know the guy hate to hear his prognosis but very little sympathy. My sympathy goes towards his family.
 
while wifebeater and alcoholic are pretty black and blue, sorry, black and white, the racist part im leary about the racist moniker

i meet very few real racist nowadays, it seems most of the time the "racist" is someone who think illegal immigrants are criminals
 
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