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Pancreatic cancer
Hi All ,
My father is suffering from pancreatic cancer, and tumor is on the head of pancreas, due to which earlier he suffers from bile duct obstruction and suffers from jaundice, later get to know , he is suffering from cancer , now all the test are done , and his condition is non operable , doctors told his stage is 3 or nearly 4th and is also spreader in liver , due to which , they cannot operate.
Please advice me if anything I can do for him, they advise us to start with chemo , but with that also , his life cycle is not longer than a year or 1.5 yrs .
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Hello. With pancreatic cancer, the survival is best if the disease can be removed by surgery. If it is not operable at present, chemotherapy is given in an attempt to reduce the size and make it operable. Radiotherapy may help in alleviating the symptoms of pain, and is at times also used to shrink the tumor. For jaundice, Stent placement may be done. But of these options, what would benefit him most can be assessed best only after seeing the patient and the imaging ( scans).
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