Sally was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in April 2011. Following surgery, her cancer sadly came back with metastases. With limited treatment options available at the time, she took part in a clinical trial investigating a new chemotherapy combination known as FOLFIRINOX. Thankfully, she has remained extremely well since completing treatment.
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Like many people, I knew little about the pancreas and even less about pancreatic cancer. The disbelief and devastation caused by a diagnosis of this disease can never be overstated; you quickly examine the nature of, and statistics around, this cancer only to find that things probably couldn’t be worse.
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I was diagnosed in March 2022 on a second visit to A&E with ‘unexpected metastatic disease’. There had been no clear symptoms, except months of fatigue and tummy ‘not feeling right,’ until the week before the second visit when I had felt very unwell and had vomited a small amount of blood. On my first visit to A&E sometime earlier, with similar symptoms, I had been given omeprazole and told I could go home. I had initially not sought the advice of my GP.
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