Adenocarcinoma sneaks up on you. Many people are nearly dead before it presents itself.
In the last nine months my wife had 8 weeks of 5-FU, the elephant gun of chemo formulas. Then Whipple surgery, which is basically the surgeons having a wild frat party in your guts for 8 hours. Then another 16 weeks of 5-FU. She has lost 50 lbs.
We caught it in stage 1b. Praise God.
wow, I certainly hope your wife does well, especially since it seems it was caught early! My mother is dealing with salivary duct carcinoma - high grade. It literally popped up out of nowhere in about 3 weeks and it too late for surgery. It was like we couldn’t get doctor appointments and special tests done to keep ahead of it’s growth. Chemo won’t work on this kind of tumor...so we’re trying radiation as a palliative thing that will hopefully buy her a little time. But my best to you and your wife and her fight with cancer!