What to ask your doctor about treating pancreatic cancer symptoms
Some questions you might ask your doctor
- Is my cancer too advanced to be cured?
- How do you know?
- Can my cancer be controlled with treatment?
- What treatments are available?
- Will the treatment shrink the cancer, or slow it down?
- What are the side effects of the treatment?
- For how long will the treatment work?
- Are there any experimental treatments or trials I could try?
- Could you arrange for me to have a second opinion?
- What happens if I decide not to have the recommended treatment?
- Is there a counsellor here I could talk things through with?
- Will I be in pain?
- What can you offer to control pain?
- Is there a Macmillan or other specialist nurse to help us with pain and other symptoms?
- Is there anyone who can give us financial advice?
- Are there any state benefits I can claim?







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