My mum’s best friend aged 78 in the last 3 weeks has been diagnosed with primary stage 4 pancreatic cancer that has metastasised to her liver, kidney (1) and most of the lymph nodes in her body(they are calling it lymphoma) and her colon.
It was discovered accidentally during a hernia surgery last month. Mum’s BF let’s call her Jane hates hospitals, doctors and is not health aware but is extremely private and has only told my mum and her husband. Over the last 2 weeks she has had many tests which she insists on going to alone, and isn’t sharing information partly because I think she doesn’t understand what she is being told. It seems like they may have told her something along the lines of life expectancy of 6 months because she made a comment about missing her birthday which is in August.
However today she had a port put in to start a course of “high dose” chemo. The schedule is 27 treatments every other Tuesday which would be a year.
From what I know about chemo it’s very debilitating, a treatment every other week sounds like a hell of a lot, and if they have in fact given her some idea of expectancy, why would they schedule a year?
Does anyone know anything about pancreatic cancer?
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Life-limiting illness
Stage 4 pancreatic cancer with metastatic multiple other organ involved
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GothamGirl1970 · 16/02/2021 02:11
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