Pancreatic Cancer UK

My lovely, brave dad lost his fight last Thursday. We are all devastated. My children will never get to know first-hand what an exceptional person their grandfather was. I feel as though we have all been robbed and so bitter that his final 8 months were unremittingly awful. I hate cancer.

Dear All, I am sorry to report that my father's cancer has now spread from his bile duct to his liver and he has been given a matter of days to live. He has fought so hard and so valiantly but this last few months have been painful, confusing and distressing for a man who was once so fit, both menta...

Thank-you to all those who took the time to post replies to my previous messages and also for the private correspondence I received. It meant a great deal. We found out about a month ago that my father's stomach pains, nausea and dramatic weight loss were not due solely to the whipple's procedure he...

Many thanks, Sharon and Paul, for your kind replies. It is good to know that there are people out there who understand what we are all going through. I have tried to get my father to eat foodstuffs such as porridge and to a certain extent, he does manage to keep it down. He has always been a 'meat a...

My father, who turned 67 earlier this month, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December '07 and was admitted for his Whipple's procedure just a few days later on December 16th. The operation took longer than usual but was pronounced "a success" by his surgeon. He did, however, suffer a large n...