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What is pancreatic cancer?
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Cyberknife treatment and side effects
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Professional care
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Disease recurrence or spread :
Signs or symptoms of a recurrence
Learning of a recurrence
Symptoms of more advanced disease
Treatment for a recurrence or for metastases
Pain management and other palliative care
Living with pancreatic cancer :
Financial and other practical issues
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Everyday life and facing the future
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Making plans for death
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Pancreatic Cancer
People's stories
Carers/family members of people who have died
Anthony - Interview 16
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Anthony’s wife, Martine, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003. She was treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. She had more chemotherapy in 2005 and ...
Susan - Interview 17
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Susan’s mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in May 2009. The doctor told her mother that her condition was terminal and that there was ...
Saba - Interview 19
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Saba’s mother was diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer 4 years ago after having appetite and weight loss. Ten weeks of gemcitabine chemotherapy had no ...
Theadora - Interview 25
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Theadora’s mother developed jaundice in 2004. After doctors diagnosed pancreatic cancer she had chemotherapy, which continued intermittently almost until she died in 2007. She ...
Simon - Interview 26
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In 2007 Simon’s wife was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She was aged 39. She started the TeloVac trial. The chemotherapy was effective but the ...
Hugh - Interview 27
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Hugh’s mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in early 2000. She had a Whipple’s operation and then weekly chemotherapy for six months. In ...
David - Interview 30
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In July 2006 David’s wife, Fiona, was aged 40. It was a shock when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She had chemotherapy, which ...
John - Interview 21
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John’s first wife, Ann, became jaundiced in 1997 and had various investigations and surgery but biopsies were inconclusive. She developed secondaries in her liver ...
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