Hello, It is good you are trying to educate yourself about PC. Sometimes information can be depressing,so please be carefull. Yes, we have a high rate of cancer coming back. I have heard from a few people who live a long time. That would be great. I like raising money to help fund researchers to help find a cure or bring more awareness to this horrible disease. It is a shame this is where we go to find our most of our information. PanCan.org has information on their website, especially about educating our congressmen or the government to give out more money for PC research.
Anyway, sorry for the soap box. I have Stage IV PC which mets to my liver. My surgeon pinched it off and took our lymphs and 3 of them were positive. I was told because of that, I need to keep getting scans to catch anything, if cancer does come back.
I did not have radiation or chemo. I asked my doctor why every one else gets to have it and I didn't, not like I wanted to. The oncologists told me because I had the slow growing PC, chemo would not effect it at all. So now I am in a waiting game.
What kind of treatment after the whipple: Mostly what your oncologist thinks is best, or seek out other doctors for more opionins. Alternative medicine with what your oncologists says to do probably wouldn't hurt either.
Best of everything, Dawnella