My only info is the article I read on CancerCompass. The article is "Benefits of Current Theorapeutic Options for Pancreatic Cancer . . ." dated June 14, 2004. It references a new Pharmacor study "Pancreatic Cancer" and therapeutic vaccines: Aphton/Aventis Pasteur's Gastrimmune and Lorus's Virulizin. I am starting to research these myself for my husband.
I find it difficult to know what direction to head when many doctors almost write this cancer off as a lost cause, if the tumor is deemed unresectible.
My husband had a bile duct stent placed March 2004 (time of diagnosis). He just had it replaced yesterday. Now we find out that the stent will need to be replaced about every 3 months due to blockage.
I tried to talk to the GI Dr who did the stent replacement(by ERCP) about my husband's gall bladder which is showing potential problems in the last ultrasound. He said not to focus on the gall bladder. [Original PET scan (Apr04)showed the tumor has not spread to other organs, radiation treatment with a splash of chemo, CT scan (Jun04) shows tumor is same size, CA 19-9 has dropped from 99 (Mar04) to 33 (Jul04).] To me, these seems to be good signs.
Does anyone have any thoughts?