My mom passed away from pc 12/23/2007. We are in the cleveland, OH area. If they can do the whipple, do it. That is your only hope!! We saw Dr. Shulak he is the head of the University Hospital Transplant dept. Unfortunately they could not remove her tumor as it was too big and had was in the vessel and he advised the tumor was advanced due to the pancrease being so discolored.