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Very sad. Another victim of pancreatic cancer. A couple of months ago, astronaut Piers Sellers died from it. Ever since I heard Randy Pausch's "The Last Lect
by melling 10y ago
Very sad. Another victim of pancreatic cancer. A couple of months ago, astronaut Piers Sellers died from it.
Ever since I heard Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture", I take notice when people die from pancreatic cancer, which a decade later, is still basically a death sentence.
http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/ http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/
- gozur88 10y agoYeah, pancreatic, esophageal, anything with a "glio" prefix... time to get your affairs in order.
- masklinn 10y ago> I take notice when people die from pancreatic cancer, which a decade later, is still basically a death sentence. And that's unlikely to change given how late symptoms show and how benign they seem.
- kolinko 10y agoIt could change with easier screening methods.
- melling 10y ago...or you could find a way to detect it earlier. I'm not sure why you'd simply throw up your hands in defeat. It's not an unsolvable problem, just a difficult one. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170206111912.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170206111912.h...
- masklinn 10y ago> ...or you could find a way to detect it earlier. The problem of that method is the number of false positives, and that pancreatic isn't a hugely common cancer, just a really lethal one. > I'm not sure why you'd simply throw up your hands in defeat. Now what the bloody fuck are you talking about? Looking at the situation objectively is not "throwing up my hands in defeat".
- Gibbon1 10y agoAlso that for whatever reason pancreatic cancer tends to be very aggressive. One-year relative survival rate is 20%, and the five-year rate is 7% Compare with most thyroid cancer. Stage IV 5 year survival rate 50%.