The disease that means even TWO WEEKS’ wait for surgery wrecks a patient’s chances

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Erika Vincent and Frances Dewar have many things in common. Both busy, working mothers with full, active lives, neither had much cause to trouble their doctors.

Then, earlier this year, they were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer within weeks of one another. For both, it was shattering news.

‘I was dumbfounded. I’d always been fit as a fiddle,’ says Erika, 55, from Buckinghamshire, who used to work as an IT consultant.

‘Even while I was having tests to find out what was wrong, I seemed fairly healthy. I never expected to be told it was cancer.’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...EKS-wait-surgery-wrecks-patients-chances.html
 
Not true. Two weeks makes no difference. The simple fact is that pancreatic cancer is a silent condition, like ovarian cancer. By the time you get symptoms, you are in bother, but if the cancer impinges on the pancreatic duct early, your chances are better.

These two cases don’t demonstrate anything other than some folk manage to get caught early and some don’t. How you fix that, I don’t know. Nobody does - the survival rate from pancreatic cancer hasn’t changed in nigh on fifty years.
 
Don’t mean to sound awful,
I have base of tounge cancer. I have a much more realistic chance. 50-65% of survival as opposed to largely incurable.
With pancreatic cancer.
 
Absolutely right HP. That’s the difference between a hidden cancer and a visible or early symptomatic cancer.
 
Hepato-pancreato said:
Don’t mean to sound awful,
I have base of tounge cancer. I have a much more realistic chance. 50-65% of survival as opposed to largely incurable.
With pancreatic cancer.
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My Dad had a similar cancer HP, which was discovered in his late 50s. He was operated on and lived to the grand old age of 86, so I hope your outcome is similar (if not better - he had his operation nearly 30 years ago!)
 
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