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Old 10-05-2011, 10:53 PM  
bhutocracy
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Originally Posted by $5 submissions View Post
pancreatic cancer is almost a DEATH sentence.

My mother died from it. She died the day after we brought her to the hospital after she experienced pain in her gut.

Steve Jobs' extra years after diagnosis was, in hindsight, a gift. The prognosis for most pancreatic cancer is not very good.
Most "normal" pancreatic cancer is, it's literally the WORST cancer.. however Job's had a very rare type - islet cell neuroendocrine - with a 94% survivability rate at 5yrs.
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