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If your condition is stable for terminal stage, I will advise you to reexamine every 2-3 months. We need to know if you’re taking any endocrine therapy drugs. Since for the endocrine therapy drug, you may develop the situation of drug resistance. But you definitely need to reexamine.
You can do it in local hospital or send your medical reports and reexamine in our hospital. Latter will be better. Because we can compare it with previous treatment. Make a complete comparison to check your current status to see if your treatment needs to be proceeded or stopped completely. It’s very important.
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It’s suitable for pancreatic cancer. The doctor need to check the stage of your pancreatic tumor, whether there are any metastasis in other organs. Because pancreatic cancer is actually the most difficult cancer to treat right now.
Then you need to check if it’s suitable for surgery. If you can’t undergo surgery, then you can undergo particle implantation. If you undergo surgery for pancreatic cancer, intraoperative complications will be high. The prognosis is not very good either. Some people can't even make it through for surgery.
As pancreatic surgery is the most difficult of all abdominal surgeries, it will cause many indications such as pancreatic fistula or the tumor may invade your blood vessel. Your local doctor may tell you that he can’t remove it and you need to undergo radiotherapy.
In terms of radiation dose of radiotherapy for pancreatic tumor, since there are nerves and intestines surrounding the pancreas. The radiation dose will be limited. It may up to 60GY to the largest extent. But in terms of particle implantation of pancreas. The radiation dose can reach 120GY, which can be twice as high as that of external radiotherapy so as to control your tumor effectively. Therefore, pancreatic cancer is a suitable indication for particle implantation.
And you can undergo Nanoknife treatment. As I just mentioned, since there are many blood vessles surrounding the pancreas, you may not be able to endure surgery. Nanoknife is a kind of irreversible electroporation technology. It can protect the blood vessle and nerves of the surroundings, which can be an alternative choice for you.
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In St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou, how long is the duration of minimally invasive surgery and how long does the patients need to stay in hospital? A minimally invasive surgery may last for 40 minutes to one hour. If you just need to do a minimally invasive surgery, like our patient in domestic, they could be discharged after observing for 2 or 3 days. But for patients coming from abroad, maybe some of them will stay for a few more days.
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It’s hereditary. But not all breast cancers are hereditary. It has heredity and it’s familial. So if you want to confirm whether your breast cancer is hereditary. You can do genetic testing. If there are several people has breast cancer or ovarian cancer at the same time in your family among your female relatives. Then I advice you that you must take genetic testing to see if it’s hereditary.
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When we say benign or malignant. It will be confirmed by pathological report after all. The doctor just makes the initial judgement. If the pathology is benign, it will not turn to malignant. But someone may say that the doctor told me it’s benign, but it turned malignant afterwards. That must mean your tumor was malignant from the beginning. Since it’s low grade malignancy. You didn't get a confirmed diagnosis.