Patrick and Jennifer Gray---DIRTY DANCING
How much longer does actor Patrick Swayze have to live? It is not an awful question. It is not a morose question. It is a hard question. So perhaps we should be asking, how would Patrick or any of us like to spend the rest of our life. Radiation, Chemotherapy it’s ugly and not effective. Pancreatic Cancer is one of the most ruthless cancers, because of these four main reasons.
1) It is one of the hardest cancers to detect. Your pancreas hides behind your stomach and a lot of other organs and there is no test for this type of cancer.
2) Usually by time it is detected it has made a major impact on your body that is irreversible.
3) Pancreatic cancer research is one of the most under funded cancers. It is not a glamour cancer, like lung cancer, breast cancer, skin cancer, ovarian cancer or even throat cancer. These are the cancers that get all the publicity. These cancers get all the celebrities to turn out for fundraising. .
I dedicate the rest of this story to Pancreatic Cancer Action Network National , an organization that in the next weeks is going to Washington D. C., seeking to get more funding for this horrible cancer. Go to their site and see how they are making a difference.
PANCAN - 2141 Rosecrans Ave., Suite 7000, El Segundo, CA 90245
Toll Free: 877-272-6226, Phone: 310-725-0025, Fax: 310-725-0029