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I have what?

By February 6, 2018February 28th, 2018No Comments

I was on vacation on idyllic Siesta Key when my doctor called and told me that I had a mass on my pancreas.  What?  I had gone in for some testing for acid reflux and they found this incidentally.  In shock I began to google pancreatic cancer but quickly closed up my computer because the prognosis was awful and the information scary.  2 days later I was at Roswell having an endoscopy ultrasound.  The diagnosis:  Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor, called a P-Net.  What?  Pancreatic cancer?  Nope.  It’s not the same thing.  I have a P-Net on the head of my pancreas.  And in the relative world of diagnoses, this was in fact the better news.  It’s very rare, and only 2% of cancers diagnosed are Nets.  Turns out, it’s the treatable one.  OK, I can live with that!

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