Good news is there is no metastatic spots (spreading) so it's all just hanging out in his pancreas. Overall staging is stage 3 (T4 N0 M0). Bad news it is still wrapped around the artery (celiac access or celiac trunk) in a place that the artery can't be sacrificed and it can't be cut away from the artery so he isn't a surgical candidate yet. Plan is have a port placed on Tuesday and then start a chemo regimen called Folfirinox. It's as aggressive as chemo for pancreatic cancer gets and we hope it shrinks the tumor away from the artery so that Neil becomes a surgical candidate and we can just have it all cut out. The surgery is a big deal surgery, but I'd like the tumor out of there.
We have a class today to talk about his chemo and plan, then family pictures tonight and then we have a break until Tuesday early morning.
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