I personally would not recommend that approach. It sounds like your cancer is locally advanced. A cycle of chemo may make your cancer resectable (at major academic centers with skilled hepatobiliary surgeons) and put you on a track you don't want to be on, where you end up too far down the treatment tunnel and feel like you can't turn back.

Decide what makes life worth living for you. If it's simply being alive no matter the state for as long as possible, go ahead and exhaust every option.

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Posted by lovelsu

Crowley, LA

Member since Jan 2007

780 posts

Posted on 10/29/16 at 8:16 pm to Parallax

Parallax you seem very knowledgeable on cancer and it's different forms. The tumor is wrapped around two arteries as well as part of the pancreas and part of the liver. The odds of getting it to shrink enough are not good. Please understand after the surgery to open my bile ducts the surgeon spoke to my husband, who waited until we got home to give me the news. I have not discussed anything with my oncologist yet so I am working off what my husband remembers of the conversation (he was in shock).

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Posted by ATL-TIGER-732

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Member since Jun 2013

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Posted on 10/29/16 at 8:41 pm to Parallax

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A cycle of chemo may make your cancer resectable (at major academic centers with skilled hepatobiliary surgeons) and put you on a track you don't want to be on, where you end up too far down the treatment tunnel and feel like you can't turn back.

The surgeons wanted to open me up and gut me like a fish. I would have been on a permanent feeding tube living in a nursing home.

I visited the first surgeon twice and his assistant tried to browbeat me into accepting surgery. The assistant got very upset when I told him "no". He said I was wasting his time.

My third surgeon visit was to a different surgeon. He read my records and teared up. He said he could not help me. I told him I never wanted surgery. That was 2 years ago and I am still living alone and taking care of myself.

I have listed several experiences (including my other post) that I think others need to be aware of so they can make intelligent logical (not emotional) decisions.

Other than a couple of incidents, I have received world class care. My tumor was 3.5 times the largest tumor listed on their life expectancy charts!

Every day I wake up, I have beat the odds.

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