Category Archives: Pancreatic Cancer
RIP: Steve Jobs
In all likelihood, Steve Jobs was killed by pancreatic cancer. In case you didn’t know, pancreatic cancer is the most deadly form of cancer in existence today. Even Jobs and his billions of dollars could not save him from its deadly grip. From the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research: An estimated 44,030 Americans will [...]
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Tagged Apple, cancer, Conditions and Diseases, Health, Pancreatic cancer, RIP, Steve Jobs
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Take BYU, They’ve Got Something Special Going On.
The head coach of the Brigham Young University men’s basketball team is Dave Rose. He is a cancer survivor. That is something special, but you want to know why it’s extra special? It is pancreatic cancer that he has survived and the odds of survival of that disease are 1 in 200,000. Related [...]
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Tagged Basketball, Brigham Young University, cancer, Dave Rose, Sports
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Queen of Soul In A Fight For Her Life
Image via Wikipedia Aretha Franklin announced yesterday that she has pancreatic cancer. Readers of this space know how I personally feel about the disease. It is a virtual death sentence. Everyone I know who has contracted the disease has died within months of its diagnosis. Medical experts claim as much as a a 10% chance [...]
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Tagged ArethaFranklin, cancer, Conditions and Diseases, Health, Life expectancy, Michael Landon, Pancreatic cancer, Patrick Swayze
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Prevent Breast Cancer (Awareness Month)
Image via Wikipedia I hate cancer in ALL OF ITS FORMS. I am starting to hate breast cancer awareness and it’s pepto bismol pink. There are lots of forms of cancer. Breast cancer is insidious. We all love breasts and want to save them, but let’s move on. Pancreatic cancer is far more insidious and [...]
And Down Goes Another
Pancreatic Cancer claims another victim, Myles Brand, president of the NCAA. This is such a bad disease, I have named a special category for it.