[Red Badger]

Good book to read:

https://www.amazon.com/Undoctored-Health-Failed-Become-Smarter/dp/1623368669

[Myrddin]

Thanks for the link. I've tried to operate that way for many years. The ampullary cancer is rare. I don't have a proper staging yet. The Whipple procedure is the only iron clad "cure" assuming metastasis hasn't occurred beyond the scope of tissue that is removed in a Whipple.

[esquirette]

Excellent book, and he confirms what I know as a defense attorney - doctors cannot go outside the “standard of care” which ends up precluding all innovations and creative care. The risk their licenses and certainly their malpractice insurance if they do so. They can also lose their licenses for prescribing medications for reasons other than those approved by the FDA and the prevailing “standard of care.”