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Looking for the best surgeon for pancreas cancer in So. CAlif. have mass on pancreas, found by the E U S procedure not e r c p. Also found on the octeoscan. Postive Lipase is high and L D H is high, c peptide is high, and glucagon is opposite it is very low.
Was wondering if anyboy had used U C L A in los angeles for any type of pancreas cancer. I know they are the best for the Liver, but not for the Pancreas. I went to M D Anderson in Houston and found out it was the worse place to go on the face of this earth. Dont go there anyone. Only one doc. does the E U S and only one. They do have a good oncology surgeon yes, but thats all.
Anybody out there know where I can go besides Hopkins or Anderson,
anybody had there pancereas operated on and where? Anybody a vicitm of pancreatic cancer , wheather it be Islet cell, endocrine tumor, or carcinoid?
Please respond.........

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Unfortunately there are no specialists in pancreatic surgery; the reason
being that there are not enough pancreatic cancers diagnosed so that one
person would be able to survive doing only pancreatic surgeries. I would
suggest that chose a surgeon by the number of pancreatic surgeries he/she
does per year and what the complication rate of those surgeries is. Also I
would not spend a large amount of time looking for a surgeon as the most
important thing to have done is removal of the tumor before it grows and
becomes inoperable. Thank you for using oncologychannel and good luck.

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