39 year old brother's pancreatic cancer diagnosis

Hi all. 

My brother has just turned 39 years old and has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer a few days ago. He has been given 3-6 months to live. The cancer is 5cm in the head of his pancreas, and has also metastasised to his liver I believe as well as several peritoneal lymph nodes - although the medical team are not sure about the lymph nodes at the moment. (this is a medical negligence case which we will be dealing with separately) 

This was a huge shock for us and we are completely devastated. He has a 5 month old and 5 year old too. 

He has received no treatment thus far. His cytology report was inconclusive and he therefore had a liver biopsy to determine the tumour type. We will then look to start chemotherapy asap. He also has a PET-CT scan scheduled for next week. We've also looked into and started some alternative therapies too.

We are feeling so lost. I wanted to know if anyone please please has any advice regarding next steps/what we can do to fight this? We are more than happy to pay/go private/go abroad if this will help. We are based in the UK.

Any support would be greatly appreciated. 

  • Sorry to hear about your brother. So young too.

    No one is allowed to name hospitals on here, but there's one in Germany that can operate/treat people that are deemed beyond such things here in the UK. If you pop over to the pancreatic UK site, you'll see stories about the hospital there. I haven't visited it in years as i used it when my uncle was ill. It's not a quack site, it is the official UK pancratic cancer charity for the UK. The nurses are also specialised pancratic nurses that you can call and speak to.

  • Thank you so much. We would be open to this and will take a look- I have heard this too. Thanks.