Dear Tiffany,
Sorry to hear about you Father. My prayers are with you and your family.
My father has been diagnosed with preiampullary carcinoma of the pancreas.
As a result he underwent a whipples resection and is now undergoing chemotherapy.
He is on 5FU and Leucovorin. He is on a 6 month treatment of 5 days each month.
What I would like to ask others out there - is that since my dad is finding the side effects quite hard to handle, and combined with the whipples resection he is in alot of discomfort, is it possible for the doctor to reduce the chemotherapy from the usual 6 months to treatment to 4 months? Has anyone ever done this before?
Will appreciate anyones feed back on this.
Thanks and Regards,
Marianne.