I'm 22 years old, and i just had a whipple opeartion 4 month ago. I had ampullary cancer, it sound uncommon, yah my dr's were shocked due to my age, also due to my health, im a healthy men and i never got sick in my life this is the frist thing poped up in my life. I had 14 lymp nodes removed none of them were cancers and they were free of tumors. My dr told me that i had a stage 1 ampullary cancer., and i did not need to go for chemo or radiation. Is ampullary cancer the same as pancreatic cancer or not, whats the difference?I was just wondering after this kind of operation can you be cured, is their any chance of recurrence? what is the survivale rate after being diagonsed for stage 1?Please any one who more information about this type of cancer could get me any helpfull infromation on it. thanks