>dear friends:
>I'd like to know a little about the success of the whipple operation
>for pancreatic cancer victims. My mother is considering this treatment.
The Whipple procedure is a very involved, multiorgan surgical procedure... I
believe it runs 7-9 hrs of surgery, presuming no complications. The Whipple is
used for early stage pancreatic cancer...when the cancer is very localized.
For later stage pancreatic cancer, there is a new drug in clinical
trials...gemcitabine (commerical name is Gemzar from Eli Lilly and Company) in
clinical trials (your mother's physician can probably get into the trial).
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