My husband was diagnosed w/pancreatic cancer May 30, 08 and was a candidate for the whipple. His tumor being 2.5cm. However, during the surgery on June 23, the surgeon found the cancer had metastized to his lymph nodes around the artery and instead of the whipples performed a bypass for his stomach and bile duct and removed the gall bladder. He was just released from hospital, but continues to have pain that seems to occur mostly at night and builds even though I am giving him large doses of Endone. He starts chemo (gemzar) next week and it has been recommended that he might have radiation therapy. Before surgery, he had mid chest pain due to ulcers, gastric reflux (at least that's what we thought the pain was caused from) and was given Nexium. The Nexium eliminated the pain. Now I am wondering if it is actually the cancer causing the pain. The doctor seems to think once he is healed from the surgery, he should return to the no pain status. Further, his doctor indicated that a mucin producing tumor of the pancreas is slow growing and his oncologist also says that the size of his tumor suggests that it may be slow growing. Also, I am wondering about the GTX therapy. Is that better than just Gemzar? Anyone else had mucin producing tumor?