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It's not quite as straightforward as you might think, my young friend.

As has already been stated, there are risks involved. You'd need to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your life. This 'opens' you up to all sorts of things. Even a common cold would have severe effects on your body, but there are much more serious things that can happen.

Secondly, pancreas transplants are only normally offered once someone has gone into kidney failure.

Thirdly, there aren't many pancreas donors available. You'd need someone to have decided to become a pancreas donor prior to them dying, and for that pancreas to be available at just the right time that you need one.

Fourthly, it is NOT a long term solution. Pancreas transplants have proved to be good in the short term, but failure tends to occur after a few years.

There is currently an experimental procedure, called the Edmonton Protocol if you want to research it, where islet cells (the things that produce insulin in the pancreas) are transplanted into the liver of the recipient. (The liver is used as it has a rich source of oxygen. The idea is that he islet cells 'bed' themselves down and begin to produce insulin of their own accord. This, again, has proved to be a short-term solution. With this procedure you'd also need to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your life. About 5 years ago my name was put forward for this experimental procedure but because I've already developed several complications I didn't pass the final hurdle. The doctors and/or scientists wished to show how advantageous the procedure would be for type 1 diabetics, showing a 'return to normality'. This makes it better for them to receive further funding to continue research and further experimentation.)

I did request, some 30 years ago, for my name to be put forward for a pancreas transplant, whilst that was still in it's infancy. Sadly, at the age of 23, I was deemed "too old". The operation in those days was only being offered to younger people. I'd already looked into the dangers that might befall someone undergoing the operation, but was willing to take the risk, hoping that progress could be made for others who might also undergo future operations.

Keep you eyes peeled, my friend, there are other exciting experiments going on at the moment, and, according to some doctors, stem cell therapy seems to hold great promise.

I wish you well, and I truly do hope that they'll find a cure in your lifetime.

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Sorry, you will not be getting a new pancreas. The procedure simply isn't done all that often because the complications of transplant surgery and the anti-rejection medication are worse than diabetes.

You don't. Pancreatic transplantation is a severely life shortening treatment, whereas type 1 diabetes properly managed with insulin is not.

People who receive pancreases often die within five years of getting the transplant, and usually die within the first decade.

On the other hand, if you control your diabetes well by carefully testing and using your insulin correctly, you could live to 90.