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Originally Posted by Shades67
I am so sorry. I do understand your feelings. Just got home from the chemo lounge with hubby 3 1/2 years into pancreas cancer now gone to his lung. It is also very aggressive and he is still hanging in there. Hoping your friend has many more fruitful years ahead.
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Oh, crap.
A good friend of my SO and I had previously had a bout with lymphoma. She successfully got through that and was in remission. While in the hospital for an unrelated issue, tests revealed pancreatic cancer. The mutual friend who reported it to me said "It's the first time I've heard the terms "pancreatic cancer" and "successful treatment" used in the same sentence."
Success is relative. It was detected early and treated aggressively, which meant she lived about a year longer than she otherwise would have. She finally had to go into hospice, and passed leaving a husband and two teenage kids. My SO and I knew the family from when the kids were toddlers. We, and everyone else who knew her, were devastated. (She was a pediatrician with an extensive practice in her area, so she had devastated patients as well, some too young to understand why they wouldn't see Dr. Sue again.
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Your hubby has best wishes and prayers from here. I can hope that somebody will beat the odds.
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Dennis