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Pancreatic Cancer

Question: What is pancreatic cancer and how do you get it? I now know of 5 people who have had Pancreatic cancer and died within 3 months. I don't understand why it isn't caught earlier so people can live. How do you get it? How do you get diagnosed early so doctors can do something about it. We have so much techology out there to fight cancer. Why are people dying of this. Why does this disease kill people so quickly?

Answer: Good question. Here is some brief info on it and why it's so hard to diagnose and what the major causes are: http://health.yahoo.com/ency/healthwise/ncicdr0000062957 Here is the site for pancreatic cancer: http://www.pancreatica.org/


Pancreatic Cancer News

Cancer strikes family again

Enterprise News
WHITMAN ? Last fall, Shauna McLaughlin and her family were busy joining a fund-raising walk for pancreatic cancer research in memory of ...
 

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Issued Japanese Patent for Anti-cancer Compound ...

MarketWatch (press release)
Archexin is in Phase II clinical development for pancreatic cancer as lead indication. Rexahn Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage pharmaceutical company ...
 

Surgeon targets pancreatic cancer with electric field

Tampa Tribune
... chief of the SBUMC Upper Gastrointestinal and General Oncologic Surgery Group, targeted was a typically fast growing and fatal pancreatic cancer tumor. ...
 

KSL-TV

BYU basketball: Cancer ordeal has left Rose more relaxed, realistic
Salt Lake Tribune
 

Washington Post

Ex-Cherokee Chief Mankiller diagnosed with cancer
The Associated Press
 

Joe Kusek: MSUB golfers putting for research dough

Billings Gazette
The ?Putt for the Cure'' fundraiser is to create additional resources for pancreatic cancer awareness. O'Brien, the MSUB golf coach, understands the disease ...
 

Talk of the Town: Together, they are making a difference

Green Valley News
The Rick Williams Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk on Feb. 27 was a tremendous success, raising more than $23000 for the Lustgarten Foundation, whose mission ...
 

Parenteral nutrition support for patients with pancreatic cancer. Results of a ...

7thSpace Interactive (press release)
In patients with advanced pancreatic cancer (APC), phase angle, determined by bio-electrical impedance analysis (BIA), seems to be a survival predictor. ...
 

Ohio officials say condemned killer who survived overdose took prescribed pills

Gaea Times (blog)
... Pancreatic Cancer Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis ... http://cli.gs/8eyZ7 markhoroszowski New Blog post Pancreatic Cancer Causes, Diagnosis, ...
 

Joe Eichinger, Top Medical Device Entrepreneur and UW Volunteer, Dies From Cancer

Xconomy
... best-known medical device entrepreneurs of the past three decades, died yesterday at his home in Everett, WA, from complications of pancreatic cancer. ...
 

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