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Jonathan Gold, L.A. Times Restaurant Critic, has died
- andyv 8y agoCity of Gold [0] is a wonderful documentary, well worth the watch. [0](https://amzn.to/2JIe0JJ https://amzn.to/2JIe0JJ)
- steven2012 8y agoPancreatic cancer is scary as hell because there's no warning signs until it's too late. I wonder why we're not doing more to develop blood tests or other ways to detect this much earlier in the process when the results are so binary, and it's also increasing in terms of number of cases every year.
- esturk 8y agoMore cases are showing up because the largest population boom in human history, the baby boomers, are just hitting the retirement age. This type of cancer is highly correlated with the population size unlike other cancers which may be correlated by diet such as liver cancer, from drinking alcohol, or lung cancer, from smoking.
- forapurpose 8y ago> I wonder why we're not doing more ... Serious question: How much are we doing?
- gammateam 8y ago> other ways to detect this much earlier in the process It is detected very easily, if you are lucky enough to have a checkup that coincides with the window of it being fairly benign The unfortunate thing is that nobody knows how fast the cancer even grows. So even if you were paranoid and had checkups every 3 months for the rest of your life, you could still miss it before Stage IV. For what you describe, this cancer would require something like nanomachines in the blood stream that detect and report the most minute composition changes.
- ljw1001 8y agoActually there is a lot of evidence that it is extremely slow growing. Something like 15 years from onset to metastasis. There’s some hope that a genomic cancer screen like Grail is pursuing will help.
- gammateam 8y agoCan you provide more info or sources about both of those? I'd like to be able to follow things in this area without starting from scratch