DEAR DR ROACH: I’m a 79-year-old male in reasonably good shape. I am 6 feet, 2 inches tall, and weigh 210 pounds. During a colonoscopy, the doctor noticed that the head of my pancreas was way larger ...
JUPITER, Fla. (CBS12) — If you know someone who’s battled pancreatic cancer, then you’ve probably heard of the Whipple procedure. It’s a complex surgery often used to treat pancreatic and other ...
I sat across from a hepatobiliary surgeon on a gray October afternoon. “To be frank,” he told me, “we don't know what to recommend in your case. So we default to being conservative. That means a ...