Pancreatic cancer is often deadly, but a new approach is raising hope

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Pancreatic cancer is often deadly, but a new approach is raising hope.

Four years after a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, Bill Bastian has energy to enjoy hobbies, like tapping maple trees for syrup.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Bill Bastian was caught completely off-guard when a doctor told him that he had pancreatic cancer and would only have 15 months to live. It was August 2015 and Bastian had thought the pain in his belly was due to something he ate.

That’s when Bastian decided to seek another opinion at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. There, he received a totally different prognosis: surgery — and longer survival — were possible.“If the patients are treated appropriately, and we can predict that their long-term outcome is going to be excellent, [surgery] is worth the risk,” said Dr. Mark Truty, a surgical oncologist at Mayo Clinic.

Bill Bastian was told he'd only live 15 months when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. That was four years ago. But Rosenzweig cautions the approach won’t work for all patients diagnosed with stage 3 pancreatic cancer. Some won’t respond to the chemotherapy necessary to kill tumor cells. Others are too sick to tolerate the therapy.

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