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Mercy Oncology, Janesville Wi, Dr Shekani is terrific
UW Madison, wi, oncoloy dept is great,
surgeon Dr Winslow, Dr Cho is liver specialist surgeon
can’t say enough good about UW madisonHi Donna and welcome, I’m also fairly new, only a few days, Do keep reading as I’ve have found alot of encouragement from many wonderful stories here.
Best to you and your mom!
CindyHi Cindy – I am also Cindy! My father is 77 and was diagnosed in april of 09, he starting a new chemo trial of abraxane. He has been on gemzar and tarceva which seemed to slow things some, then xeloda and Fulfox which is a pump. It seemed to help. He had surgery in sept this past fall. though he has liver and lung lesions now. Although he was being treated for a misdiagnosed pancreatic cancer and the mistake was discovered just before he surgery. But it’s been alsmost two years now since the intial liver lession was discovered.. and he says he’s going to be with us next Christmas!
This is truly tough. i lost my mother to ovarian cancer last april after four years. I was her primary caregiver and will also be Dad’s. Cancer is never an easy thing for patients or family. I have also had cancer,17 years ago. Everyone is so different and the prognosis are only based on your docs experience with previous cases and how they reacted. My mother was given 2 months and lived four years.
I’ll be thinking of you.
I will be here if you need someone just to talk to.thank you all
my father will be starting on abraxane nex tuesday, he will have 12 weeks of it in low doses. will keep youinformed
thanks again!Hi, and Thank you
When my Dad was first diagnosed he had only a small liver lesion 5mm that was biopsied and was told he had pancreatic cancer by a cancer center in another state. I was present for the diagnosis there and they said it could be removed because of the pancreatic cancer not being operable. Since then he moved here to be close to family.
Ironically, my mother’s first diagnosis was also pancreatic cancer when in fact it was ppc/ovarian.
In both cases it was UW of Madison hospital that diagnosed correctly.
Both mom and dad where told that no surgery could be done and in both cases, they did indeed have surgery at UW. It gave mom four yrs instead of the two months she was first given.
Unfortunately Dad’s may have been too late, however we’re still working on it.the new cancer lessions have appeared recently and are very small but there are many. Apparently rogue cells had already been released before they were detectable and the same with the new lesion on his lung. He also has two enlarged lymphnodes that are near the liver. Very thorough tests were done days before the surgery. The Dr said she would not do surgery unless she was sure there was no sign of metastisies. So I beleive they did everything possible before surgery.
My Dad and i run a cancer and support group and cannot stress enough the importance for anyone to get a second opinion.
Mom was, and Dad is being treated locally but we go to UW for second opinions anyway and they happily confer with our local doctor.
I have all the faith in the world in our oncology clinic here in town and also cannot say enough good things about UWMadison.I won’t say where the misdiagnosis took place. But in neither case was it in this town where Mom received her treatment and Dad is currently receiving his.
Unfortunately running our support group does not mean I have all the answers i need or for anyone else, but I have read alot of the posts and am finding them very helpful and in many cases even hopeful and I thank everyone involved for that!
