Sharon Jones

At first, they told me it was just bile-duct cancer, but once they went in, they removed the gallbladder, the head of my pancreas, and a foot-and-a-half of my small intestine, and built me another bile duct and connected it to my stomach. It turned out to be pancreatic cancer, stage two, so, very aggressive.

American Musician

Mark Hunt

A few months before my dad died, his eyes had started to go, and his skin was turning green. When he finally went to hospital, he was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer. None of us kids knew why the old man ignored the doctors and refused their help, but none of us were surprised, either.

New Zealander Athlete

Sebastian Thrun

We should have lifelong monitoring of our vital signs that predict things like skin or pancreatic cancer so we can eradicate it. We should have personalized medicine; there's a huge amount of innovation possible.

German Scientist

Mathew Knowles

I have four things to be concerned about: prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, melanoma and breast cancer. The rest of my life I have to be very much aware and conscious and do all of the early detection.

American Businessman

Jerry Reinsdorf

One of my friends, picture of health, worked out his whole life, never had a weight problem. Calls me up one day and says, 'I have pancreatic cancer.' Gone. I've lost too many friends.

Jimmy Carter

My - both my sisters died with pancreatic cancer. My brother died with pancreatic cancer. My daddy died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died with breast cancer.

American President

Siddhartha Mukherjee

We don't know why, but pancreatic cancer has a very interesting physiological link to depression. There seems to be a deep link, and we don't know what it is.

Indian Scientist

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

After the pancreatic cancer, at first I went to N.I.H. every three months, then every four months, then every six months.

American Judge

Randy Pausch

It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.

American Educator

Patrick Swayze

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

American Actor

Often used when discussing diseases affecting the pancreas, like diabetes or cancer.

Medical Condition

'Pancreatic' is a technical term used by medical professionals or in academic contexts.

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It specifically relates to the pancreas and should not be confused with nearby organs.

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 the juice that we can suck out of our hours and days. And I would add a cautionary note here, however. In my experience, there is something addictive about tasting life at the very edge of what's humanly possible. Now I don't just mean in the field of daft macho Edwardian style derring-do, but also in the fields of pancreatic cancer,

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 we can avoid suffering from it, so if we can figure out how to translate grief and if we can figure out how to walk through grief, then we won't have to experience the magnitude of it. Many of you know that I lost the love of my life two years ago from pancreatic and liver cancer,

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 retired English professor who had pancreatic cancer. I was asked to see her because she had pain, nausea, vomiting When I went to see her, we talked about those symptoms and in the course of that consultation, she asked me whether I thought that medical marijuana might help her.

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 with lower back pain that turned out to be advanced pancreatic cancer. In her case, I knew there was nothing I could do that was actually going to save her life. The cancer was too advanced. But I was committed to making sure that I could do anything possible to make her stay

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 was so fantastic and then he came on the next day and he had solved this problem with pancreatic cancer or prostate cancer and oh and then there was this kid from Nairobi who figured out how to save the cattle and save the lines and they were so cute but then thank God

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 Have you ever experienced a moment in your life that was so painful and confusing, that all you wanted to do was learn as much as you could to make sense of it all? When I was 13, a close family friend who was like an uncle to me passed away from pancreatic cancer.

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 And do you know what all of them have in common? They all died of pancreatic cancer. However, although it's very, very sad this news, it's also thanks to their personal stories that we have raised awareness of how lethal this disease can be.

Good news in the fight...

 Sometimes, a study can have results that, while scientifically valid, don’t have much bearing on real world outcomes. For example, one real-life clinical trial of a pancreatic cancer drug found an increase in life expectancy— of ten days.

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 brought to me the mind that maybe I could help save someone's life my major goal is to save as many lives as possible and rent the pain that comes from like pancreatic cancer as well as other cancers

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 because we can provide them with good pancreatic cells that can produce insulin on their own. And imagine a world where patients with kidney failure do not have to face the burden of dialysis.

Pancreatic

Related to the pancreas, a part of the human body.

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