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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't have any answers.  We went through almost the opposite with my dad.  He developed significant dementia relatively quickly that we were so focused on chasing supports for his delusions that we missed his pancreatic cancer.  We only found out about his cancer a week before he passed.  We had been dealing with the sudden onset of dementia for about 4 months.  So, it was kind of a shock that he was gone so fast after finding the cancer.  We decided not to treat the cancer/symptoms because his quality of life was so poor due to the dementia.  Although, I don't think there was much to be done for cancer.  And I don't know how much the dementia and the cancer were intertwined.

It is a touch road no matter what.  [/quote]
The dementia may have been metastasis to the brain. Pancreatic cancer is such a fast killer. Sorry your dad went through all this. [/quote]

Sorry you went through this but I am shocked that it doesn't seem as if any drs told you it almost certainly was not dementia but instead metastasized pancreatic cancer. That is a hallmark of the quick spreading disease. It is a miserable cancer. When my mom was diagnosed with it, we were told to expect deliriums/dementia like symptoms within 2 months. She lived less than 2 months but the dementia like symptoms appeared at about week 4 after diagnosis. It is very, very common. Your dad most certainly had the cancer spread to his brain. [/quote]

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