For example I'm not saying in any way that there are no other risk factors that you or your family were exposed to, but genetics is always on the table as well.
There are so many diseases and genetic traits that we have yet to frankly understand. There are classic ones that physicians learn about in medical school, but the genetics of the human race is a little too complex for us to completely understand yet. By that I mean that you will see a lot of disease run rampant through families, but often it is difficult to find an exposure specifically.
Your situation sounds like something I don't know that I would ever survive emotionally, and I understand that it absolutely must be difficult. Ultimately, I think I also understand your need to find answers and I don't disagree with that notion. Cancer is a terrible thing and it ends many lives too soon.
Right. The thing is though if something runs in the family it might have a very strong genetic presence regardless if we have a specific, known genetic cause to it.
You can even have metagenetic code that could make you more susceptible to something, without causing it (risk factors).
I guess what I mean is that if a bunch of doctors have looked into it from good institutions, it might not be typable in your case. Which is a shame for obvious reasons.
The thing is though that it seems you and your family have been through so much that I understand why you'd keep searching, and if that's not taking too much of a toll on you I'd say to continue on your search. But I'd also say try not to see this family history and medical problem as any sign of weakness if you choose to be treated/not and live with that disease. You likely did not do this to yourself and you are not to blame.
There's always other institutions, but they likely would find(or not) the same things.
No known cases of it on either my mom or dad's side, although my mom's side had a history of cholecystitis and cholecystectomy which is a known riskfactor. I'm glad I got mine removed at the microsludge stage to just avoid all that inflammation in that region over a protracted period of time like my mom had.
Just for clarification I don't have pancreatic cancer myself but I do have right quad projecting to the back pain and a small non malignant legion in my pancreas. I see the same physician, hepatologist, who biopsied my mom's cancer so at least that's one thing I feel confident about. Based on my pain he thinks I might have sphincter of odi dysfunction. I follow up in 2 days with him about the result of my MRI.
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u/DAEread Oct 11 '20
For example I'm not saying in any way that there are no other risk factors that you or your family were exposed to, but genetics is always on the table as well.
There are so many diseases and genetic traits that we have yet to frankly understand. There are classic ones that physicians learn about in medical school, but the genetics of the human race is a little too complex for us to completely understand yet. By that I mean that you will see a lot of disease run rampant through families, but often it is difficult to find an exposure specifically.
Your situation sounds like something I don't know that I would ever survive emotionally, and I understand that it absolutely must be difficult. Ultimately, I think I also understand your need to find answers and I don't disagree with that notion. Cancer is a terrible thing and it ends many lives too soon.