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The Truth About Cancer
Sarah Cooper – Pancreatic Cancer Survivor
13 Years
Ty: And I guess September of this last year we both had the
privilege of speaking at a conference in Atlanta and I was able to
speak to a patient of yours that is a pancreatic cancer survivor of
13 years.
Dr. Linda Isaacs: That’s right.
Ty: Can you talk a little bit about here I’ll mention her name,
Sarah Cooper. And talk about the treatment protocol that you’ve
used with Sarah to be out 13 years with pancreatic cancer which is
supposed to be a death sentence.
Dr. Linda Isaacs: Right. Well, she was originally diagnosed in the fall
of 2000 and then she was found to have a mass in the pancreas. So a
few months later, it took a little time, I think people were telling her she
should get surgery and that’s what they were advocating. But she wasn’t
too keen on that idea. So eventually she did though get a needle biopsy
which showed that she had poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma which
is another way of saying it was really bad news. And there are different
types of pancreatic cancer. So just to be absolutely sure the hospital
sent the slides onto an expert at the Mayo Clinic who also looked at
them and said, yes, this is pancreatic cancer. Its the adenocarcinoma,
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