It has been a tough ten days or so. My father has been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. He has a tumor on his pancreas that is about 2 inches long and cannot be removed because of all the blood vessels, etc. surrounding it. No official prognosis has been made, but pancreatic cancer is not one of the better cancers, they can't take it out and my dad is 84 years old.
It was discovered because he has some symptoms which needed to be diagnosed. First, he was losing weight. Second, no appetite. Third, pain in the abdominal area. The weight loss was caused by the tumor preventing any nutrition from food getting anywhere in his body. He's also got some bad jaundice right now because the tumor is blocking the bile ducts and things are backing up. The doctor is going to do surgery on Thursday to connect his intestine directly to his stomach, which (I guess) will release the jaundice and allow him to begin getting nutrition and hopefully gaining weight again.
After that, they will meet with the oncologist to determine a plan of treatment, whether it be chemo, radiation or whatever. I'lll keep posting here and updating his condition.
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We are stillpraying for your dad.
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