Word came today that Alabama Native and Civil Rights icon John Lewis is being treated for stage four Pancreatic Cancer...and it strikes me I have heard more and more people being diagnosed.
That not just a gut feeling. Scientific American published a rather bleak article last year about the disease:
That not just a gut feeling. Scientific American published a rather bleak article last year about the disease:
"Even if blood tests could someday detect pancreatic cancer at an early stage, treatment would have to improve a lot for them to do much good. Unlike many cancers that are curable if detected early, pancreatic tumors are quick to metastasize. “The cells break away like a crumbling popcorn ball,” Brawley says. Still, some modest progress has been made. Five-year survival rates for pancreatic cancer have inched up from 6 to 9 percent in recent years."
- 1 / 16. Alex Trebek. ...
- 2 / 16. Steve Jobs. In 2003, doctors diagnosed the larger-than-life CEO of Apple with a rare neuroendocrine tumor. ...
- 3 / 16. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. ...
- 4 / 16. Aretha Franklin. ...
- 5 / 16. John Hurt. ...
- 6 / 16. Luciano Pavarotti. ...
- 7 / 16. Sharon Jones. ...
- 8 / 16. Alan Rickman.
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