Pancreatic Cancer Center

Question: Which hospital is better at cancer diagnosis in DC/Baltimore area? My friend may or may not have pancreatic cancer; the biopsy was 'inconclusive.' Just wondering if anyone has had direct or indirect experience of the cancer centers at Georgetown University (Lombardi Cancer Center) or Johns Hopkins.

Answer: Both are excellent. I would choose the closest one.

Question: duke university cancer treatment center? pancreatic cancer treatment

Answer: What's your question? Duke is a NCI designated comprehensive cancer center with specialized treatment available for treating pancreatic cancer. If you live in NC and have pancreatic cancer then Duke is your best choice for expert treatment. What you do not want is some local surgeon who has maybe done a couple of pancreatic resections in the past working on you. You want a specialist who treats pancreatic cancer all the time working on you. You'd find that expert at Duke. good luck

Question: What is Bishop Walter Hawkins' current condition since being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year? Bishop Walter Hawkins: pastor of Love Center Ministries in Oakland, CA & of Black Gospel music group, The Hawkins Family

Answer: He's alive.

Question: is anyone familiar with pancreatic cancer? what are the different stages and WHICH ONE IS THE WORST/FATAL? what is the name of the center/institution for dying patients? WOW! thank you so much for your input....i am sincerely grateful for the information you both (y!a 1 & 2) have shared w/me, thus far, as i am sad right about now....(weeping!) have a good evening!

Answer: Pancreatic cancer is staged as follows: Stage I: Cancer is contained within the pancreas and hasn't spread outside this organ. This is called cancer in situ. Stage II: The cancer has spread to nearby organs but hasn't spread to the lymph nodes. Stage III: The cancer has spread to lymph nodes near the pancreas but may or may not have spread to other organs nearby. Stage IVa: The cancer has spread (metastacized) to other organs (stomach, spleen, colon, etc.) but hasn't metastacized to distant organs. Stage IVb: The cancer has metastacized to other nearby organs or to distant organs (liver or lungs for example). Obviously a stage IVb is the worst and is considered to be a terminal condition. The terminally ill are cared for by hospice services. This is also known as palliative care. Hospice can take place in a hospice facility to which a terminal patient is transferred and cared for until he or she dies, or hospice can take place in a person's home with a hospice nurse visiting daily and caring for both patient and family needs. And, yes, the family needs care as well as the dying person.

Question: cancer centers of america? is a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer a death sentence? or can someone survive this type of cancer? please help! the doctor says there's nothing that they can do.

Answer: Unfortunately, pancreatic cancer has a very poor prognosis. I wish the best for you or whoever has been diagnosed with such a terrible disease. As for Cancer Centers of America, I don't have a problem with them since they use both conventional and alternative treatments. However, they are quite expensive and not cutting edge. You can probably get the same treatment at a major local hospital. If it were me, I'd suggest consulting with MD Anderson Cancer Center, they are leaders in pancreatic cancer treatment research. If you enroll in a clinical trial there, it may be cheaper if your insurance covers it.

Question: Would anyone like to give me some advice? Now, I just finished writing a narrative essay. It's extremely sad, and I cried while writing it, so I hope it's good. I was wondering if anyone would proofread it for me? I read over it a bunch of times and saw no mistakes, but I may be missing some. I'd greatly appreciate it. :) Make suggestions too, or if something sounds funny... Here is my essay... Summer in Texas It was the end of my 5th grade school year in May of 2004, and I was looking forward to having a wonderful summer before my first year of middle school. Little did I know that all my plans were about to change. Usually, I have a spectacular summer. I’d travel to places, I’d see my friends, and I’d have a fun. However, the summer of 2004 would forever change that tradition and prove to be life changing. My life changing experience started one day when I came home from school. I walked into the kitchen and I saw my mother crying. I despised seeing her cry. She never cries, so I knew something major must’ve been up. She immediately told me her father, who lived in Texas, was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, and he only had about 3 months to live. I’d always been really close to my family, even the relatives that didn’t live near me, so this really affected me. I ran up to my room and cried until I fell asleep. I loved my Grandpa and I was not ready to lose him for anything. I knew I was going to lose my Grandpa, but I thought I wasn’t ever going to have the chance to say goodbye. My mother came in my room with my sister, Hannah. She told us we’d be leaving for Texas before school was out for the summer. I didn’t like the idea for I was going to miss my graduation, but I was glad I was going to be able to see my Grandpa one last time. We made a plan that we would leave the following week, driving to Texas. The following week came quickly. We left early in the morning, saying goodbye to my father, who stayed home. We drove 2 of the longest days of my life. The car was extremely cramped and we continuously had to eat at fast food restaurants. On the upside, we drove through Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and straight into Texas. My Grandpa lived at the very south part of Texas. He lived in Beaumont. Finally, after two days of driving over two thousand miles we reached his house. It was after midnight, but he was there to greet us. It was early June at this time, and it was extremely hot during the summer in Texas. The hot days in Texas did not make our lives any easier. We were taking care of my Grandpa day by day. He was still strong at this time and able to go about a semi-normal life. My older brother, David, came home on leave from the Navy. He came to visit so he could help out my Grandpa. My Grandpa owned a green beach house on Crystal Beach. We visited there quite often because he loved it there. He wanted to remodel it so it would be stronger, since it was built in 1960. Those were the fun days we all spent with him. He would watch us go fishing in the ocean, and he’d eat the fish we caught. He’d show us all these wonderful places and take us walking on the beach. After June was over, I began to miss those days where he’d take us to the beach and fishing. He began getting really weak to where he couldn’t walk anymore. We had to drive two hours to Houston almost every day to take him to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. They would treat him with chemotherapy, trying to make him live longer. During the month of July, he began to forget the littlest everyday necessities. He forgot how to eat and drink for himself. He forgot where he was, who he was, and why he was there. It was one the most horrible sights I’d ever seen. I knew my Grandpa as a very strong man. He wasn’t someone who enjoyed having people do everything for him. As my Grandpa became weaker, and we had to do everything for him, we hired a Hospice Nurse, nurse who comes to your house everyday to check on you. She’d visit quite often. It was nearing the end of July by now, and there was no way my Grandpa could do anything on his own. I remember waking up in the middle of the night hearing him in terrible pain. I couldn’t bear to listen to it. It made my heart sink and filled my eyes with tears. Every day, it’d get worse. He’d get weaker, and unable to even move. I hated seeing him unable to move. I hated seeing the strong man I knew, so weak. It was the beginning of August; we called my father and asked him to fly to Texas. My Grandpa had wanted to see my father the whole summer, but he just wasn’t able to make it down to Texas. My father flew in too late. My Grandpa died on August 8th, 2004 after midnight. My father arrived an hour later. It was horrible knowing that he was just a little too late. My Grandpa had open heart surgery years before this, so his heart was strong enough and made him live longer than he was supposed to. His funeral was days later and we miss him more than anything. After his funeral, everyone was upset. Everyone was Sorry! It got cut off. . Everyone was missing him. He was unlike anyone else. I never knew one summer could change my life so drastically and unexpectedly. My life and my families’ lives are forever changed. My Grandpa will forever be in our hearts. Thank you guys for your sympathy. I appreciate you taking the time to read it. :) Thank you for helping me out everyone!

Answer: blah for people who don't want to help out >:[ i only skimmed through it, and one mistake i saw was: "My Grandpa lived at the very south part of Texas" change very south part to southernmost region/area of texas. "As my Grandpa became weaker, and we had to do everything for him, we hired a Hospice Nurse, nurse who comes to your house everyday to check on you." break up the sentence into two parts. for "nurse who comes to your house..." , never use 2nd person pov, "you". change to "nurse who comes to a patient's house..." i guess there are a few other problems too, but those are the three that I see for now. ps. it seems very sad.

Question: Should dying father be required to make unpaid child support payments for child he's not seen in 18 years? My nursing home roommate's son is seeing him for the first time in nearly 18 years. The mother ran off with the child, without notifying the father or child support enforcement. Not knowing where to send the support, they discontinued the collection process. Now that the son has found his father and has come visit him, the mother feels the boy has turned against her, so she's filed an enforcement action against the father. He has Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer and will be getting moved to a hospice center soon. He's living on VA disability payments. She going after attaching his payments, as well as his estate, reducing what the boy and his younger children from a second marriage, will get. Is she right? It should be noted that 18 years ago there were no ways to find someone like today. A few of you think he was just not paying. He didn't know where to send it.

Answer: Hi your friend needs to see a solicitor.If his son is working then she is entitled to nothing.

Question: Patrick Swayze dead, breaking, will you miss him? We will certainly miss you. Patrick Swayze the star of "Ghost" and "Dirty Dancing" passed away, we’re sad to report. Stanford University Medical Center reports the death of iconic actor of 80s and 90s - Patrick Swayze. He was 56 and had been battling pancreatic cancer. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11852412?t=patrick-swayze-cancer-dead

Answer: Nothing in the link refers to Patrick Swayze. In fact, the lead article is about Bruce Stinksteen.

Question: Why Why did he have to die? Randolph Frederick Pausch[2] (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pausch received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Brown University in 1982 and his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon in August 1988. Pausch later became an associate professor at the University of Virginia, before working at Carnegie Mellon as an associate professor. He gave his "The Last Lecture" speech on September 18, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon. Pausch conceived the lecture after he learned that his previously known pancreatic cancer was terminal.[3] The talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical "final talk", with a topic such as "what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?" The talk was later released as a book called The Last Lecture, which became a New York Times best-seller. Early life Pausch was born at Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in Columbia, Maryland.[2] After graduating from Oakland Mills High School in Columbia, Pausch received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Brown University in May 1982 and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in August 1988.[4] While completing his doctoral studies, Pausch was briefly employed at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and Adobe Systems.[5] ] Career Pausch was an assistant and associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science from 1988 until 1997. While there, he completed sabbaticals at Walt Disney Imagineering and Electronic Arts (EA). In 1997, Pausch became Associate Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design, at Carnegie Mellon University. He was a co-founder in 1998, along with Don Marinelli, of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), and he started the Building Virtual Worlds[6] course at CMU and taught it for 10 years. He consulted with Google on user interface design and also consulted with PARC, Imagineering, and Media Metrix.[5] Pausch is also the founder of the Alice software project.[7] He was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow.[8] Pausch was the author or co-author of five books and over 70 articles. He also received two awards from ACM in 2007 for his achievements in computing education: the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award and the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.[9] He was also inducted as a Fellow of the ACM in 2007. The Pittsburgh City Council declared November 19, 2007 to be "Dr. Randy Pausch Day".[10] In May 2008, Pausch was listed by Time as one of the World's Top-100 Most Influential People.[1] Cancer The poster for Pausch's "The Last Lecture"Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer[3][11] and underwent a Whipple procedure (pancreaticoduodenectomy) on September 19, 2006 in an unsuccessful attempt to halt his pancreatic cancer.[12] He was told in August 2007 to expect a remaining three to six months of good health. He soon moved his family to Chesapeake, Virginia, a suburb near Norfolk, to be close to his wife's family. On March 13, 2008, Pausch advocated for greater federal funding for pancreatic cancer before the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies.[13] In the week prior to this, he had been hospitalized in order to have needle aspiration of pleural effusion in his right lung.[14] On May 2, a Positron emission tomography (PET) scan showed that he had very tiny (5 millimetres (0.20 in) or less) metastasis in his lungs and some lymph nodes in his chest. He also had some metastases in his peritoneal and retroperitoneal cavities. On June 26, 2008, Pausch indicated that he was considering stopping further chemotherapy because of the potential adverse side effects. He was, however, considering some immuno-therapy-based approaches.[15] On July 24, on behalf of Pausch, a friend anonymously posted a message on Pausch's webpage stating that a biopsy had indicated that the cancer had progressed further than what was expected from recent PET scans and that Pausch had "taken a step down" and was "much sicker than he had been". The friend also stated that Pausch had then enrolled in a hospice program designed to provide palliative care to those at the end of life.[15] Wikinews has related news: "Last Lecture" Professor Randy Pausch dies at age 47 Pausch died from pancreatic cancer at his family's home in Chesapeake, Virginia on July 25, 2008, having moved there so that his wife and children would be near family after his death. H I dont know why its under jokes and riddles and how come i cannot choose a best answer

Answer: i saw that speech. it was very sad. i think highly of that man.

Question: Need help on tattoo idea....? My dad is going to die within the next 3-4 months from pancreatic cancer. He is most definitely my best friend and I'm getting a tattoo now. I am going to get one of the pancreatic cancer ribbon with his initials in it, and I also think I want to get one on the center of my upper back that says "Take a bow my father" because I am so proud of him and how hard he has tried to beat the cancer. He is 100% French and I think I will get it translated so it would look like, Prendre Un Arc Mon Pere what do you guys think?

Answer: That would be great in French, Beautiful!!! You could even tie it in with the ribbon. Stay strong! You and yours have a rough next few months in front of you...

Question: What can cause a burning sensation of skin that looks normal but feels like a sunburn? I am a 32 year old male with fair skin. For the last 2 weeks, I have had a sensation that is identical to sunburn on the back side of my left shoulder. I can localize the area to about a 1x2 inch size, and it is slightly more painful in the center. Touching it or my shirt rubbing against it increases the pain. I haven't noticed anything that helps. The area of skin looks completely normal, although I do have something like a skin tag or pimple within the area that recently scabbed over (I have some acne like lesions over my upper back, and have had them for a long time). The skin is smooth, no bumps or dryness. The pain is light and normally I only notice it when I am doing something like reading a book. It feels exactly like a mild sunburn. I do not have any unusual health problems other than ulnar neuropathy (numbness) in my left arm affecting my pinkie and ring finger which began about a year ago. Father died of pancreatic cancer mid 20s. Mom healthy

Answer: I had that happen on the back of my thigh. Turns out it was a wasp sting, and the stinger was still in my skin. It felt "like a sunburn" for several inches around in all directions. Appearently I had been stung in my sleep. I went to the MD and he put a solution on it and removed the stinger, and it was back to normal later the next day.

Question: I need advise on how a life insurance beneficiary can be changed when the owner was unable too.???????????? ok my story starts when my mom had stroke in dec and was put in rehabilitation center "old folk's home" for physical therapy and some days she knew time,place,date,etc and some days she was only alert to person only and knew nothing, and in feb she was put into hospital with jaundice and doctors discovered she had pancreatic cancer and a bio tube was stopped up from her liver,so they couldn't do surgery due to her bad health problems and her age,so doctors sent my mother back home to my house to live the few months they gave her.So she came home in ambulance,and a hospice nurse came to get her set up in hospital bed and the hospice care.So around this time on her way home in a ambulance or while laying in the bed in pain she was requesting a beneficiary change to her life insurance,and the following day signing it while she still was unable to even get out of bed or even know time,place,date,etc and on her 3rd day home or her last day of life faxing in her beneficiary change that had 4 new people on the new change, so i wrote a letter to the life insurance company and they put the account on hold and so far i got all of her medical records,and a doctor letter stating her health problems and got a letter from hospice stating my mother's condition while they did their visits in the home, and every time i call to talk to the life insurance company they say the account is in the legal dept and im not beneficiary and they can't tell me no more info because i was not on the last change made to the account, so i need help or info on this or what steps i need to take next or ? thanks

Answer: Outside of legal action, there is no way to change the beneficiary from the last form the company received. If you want to contest the change because you suspect she was not lucid when she signed it, talk to a lawyer.

Question: How do I keep myself motivated to do what I need to do in my daily life? I'm going through a lot of personal struggles, and I'm trying to get back into school. I'm very nervous, anxious, don't know what to expect, & feel like pulling my hair out, banging my head, or screaming sometimes. I feel so sluggish. I know I need to study the GRE & study my Spanish. I feel SO overwhelmed! I try as hard as I can, but I feel like I'm procrastinating. Maybe I'm not giving myself enough credit for the work I HAVE been doing. I've accomplished quite a bit with my daily goals, but it's becoming dreadfully a struggle. I'm wondering if I'm so stressed that it seems like my Clonazepam feels like it's no longer effective. I take 4mg/day. 1 guy told me that's pretty high. I suffer OCD, anxiety, depression, & Tourette's. I'm in the process of looking for a new psychiatrist who will accept my insurance. I don't want to bail out or quit. I want to strive for trying to @ least prepare myself for the graduate program to receive a MA in Linguistics, teaching ESL. I have my BA in Spanish, but I'm not yet fluent because the program didn't adequately prepare me for fluency. If I succeed in my MA program with studying in Mexico for a yr., I'll most DEFINITELY be fluent, from what I was told. I don't know why I feel like I'm rushing things, which is increasing my anxiety. & also, my parents are terminally ill. Mom with shingles & dad with pancreatic cancer. My dad is 78, & mom is 61. Family doesn't speak to me because I was a foster child since infancy, as well as my twin. They don't accept me, but they accept her for being thuggish. I'm career & goal-oriented, & my family thinks I'm dorkish & crazy for that. I had 2 strokes @ age 5, & they think I'm retarded. I'm not. I just feel like crying right now. I'm supposed to moving into the dorms @ my university in Jan. for Spring semester. I'm considered a Post-Baccalaureate student. My neighbors are driving me up the wall every night (can't wait to leave!), & I'm intimidated by my landlord & the cops. Good thing I have a couple of friends & mentors to help me manage this, but I have NO family to turn to. They make whatever issue I have 10 X worse & LAUGH! They're cruel. Sometimes it feels like I have NOBODY, when I do have a few people. But they can't be here with me 24/7. I need to manage this on my own. The cops in my town are bullies, just like my landlord. I know that if things get taken to court, that will affect my academics & hold me back. The mental health clinic & counseling center here do me more harm than good. I walk out the clinic, feeling the need to make a grievance against them about something harsh the case manager or counselor has said to me, or they blame me for my problems. What kind of SUPPORT is that!? I'm trying to look for a private psychiatrist ASAP. But I'm afraid that the meds they put me on will make me gain more weight & sleep excessively, & I can't afford that. I'm also stressed because I can't find a job. Everything I've been going through, I was told to document it, take pictures, or do whatever for proof & evidence. I'm having problems everywhere I go. The bus driver acted rude with me, & that triggered off a Tourette's outburst, & now they're making threats to not let me ride the bus. I need a job & a car. But with a car, I'm afraid to drive here because of people driving recklessly, & once again, the bully-fied cops.

Answer: I read what you wrote & as I read it my heart went out to you. Make sure that you get plenty of sleep each night, as it will help you on days that are tougher than normal. You've gone through alot, but I admire your tenacity. Try not to focus on the challenges or things that might go wrong during the day, but on all of the accomplishments that you've made. I have a very good friend who's son has Tourette's. He works at a Golf Course & everyone loves him. His father plays alot of golf there & taught his son to play & that's how the owners know his son. At the end of the day before you go to sleep, reflect upon all the things that you've been able to accomplish that day & try not to focus on the things that didn't go well that day. You know that you'll find a way to turn those challenges around & make them happen another day. You are accomplishing alot in spite of your challenges. Try not to be so hard on yourself & try to focus on what you've been able to tackle & make happen, instead of what didn't go well. Hang in there. You are to be admired for your fortitude amidst your challenges. My hat is off to you for all that you've been able to accomplish. Hang in there,....you're doing just fine.