Medically reviewed by David Strosberg, MD Key Takeaways Recovery after a Whipple procedure takes about six to eight weeks.You need to meet certain milestones before being discharged from the hospital ...

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 ...

A Sacramento hospital is breaking new ground in cancer treatment. Dignity Health Mercy General Hospital has made history as the first in the region to successfully perform a robotic-assisted Whipple ...

Chronic pancreatitis, a painful, debilitating condition, often requires major surgery to remove all or part of the pancreas. Few large studies have evaluated how these patients fare five years or more ...

Surgery alone offered improved survival and a potential cure for select pancreatic cancer patients. Clear surgical margins and negative lymph node status were essential to better survival. The ...

Pancreatic cancer is mostly pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, with late-stage detection due to non-specific symptoms like jaundice and abdominal pain. Diagnosis involves imaging tests, biopsies, and ...

Surgery without chemotherapy or radiation offers a potential cure for some patients with pancreatic cancer -- but with a catch, a retrospective cohort study suggested. Patients who had surgery lived ...