When he noticed symptoms in his 30s, the doctor uncovered a family history of early-onset cancer.
The Whipple procedure is a complicated surgery that took more than six hours. The pancreas is located in a very tricky spot at the back of the abdomen. It's extremely high value real estate, if you will, because there are a lot of organs in that area. You don't mess with the pancreas unless you absolutely have to.
Most people are in the hospital for a week and then it took one to two months for me to approach some sense of normalcy. The biggest problem is learning to eat again. This operation so profoundly rearranges the upper part of the gut that the patient needs time to adjust to a new way of eating. At first, you can only eat extremely small volumes and I was supported with intravenous nutrition for over a month. There's a tremendous amount of weight loss associated with this.
I've been able to stay as healthy as I can and continue to practice, which is really my calling. I love oncology, I was drawn to it by losing my dad and taking care of myself means I can take care of my patients.. It's so important for people to know what happened to their other relatives — not just that there's a cancer in the family, but finding out as much specific detail as possible.
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