Andrew Huberman· PhD
so the only so about 20% of people who have pancreatic cancer technically have it in a way where you could still take out the head of the pancreas right the Whipple procedure the Whipple procedure
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so the only so about 20% of people who have pancreatic cancer technically have it in a way where you could still take out the head of the pancreas right the Whipple procedure the Whipple procedure
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now tragically most of those patients will still recur my understanding it is that pancreatic cancer progresses from anterior to posterior in the pancreas and that the Whipple is a removal of the front end the anterior that's the Whipple procedure so if the cancer has progressed far enough coddle into the posterior uh pancreas then there's nothing left to cut out basically
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