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=What is the reason that makes Pancreatic Cancer important to Cure?=

The median year of survival from first infected by the cancer is half a year. My expert, Masato Yamamoto, who researches about virus vector for curing pancreatic cancer at the University of Minnesota, said, "The median year of survival from when a patient is first diagnosed of pancreatic cancer is about half of a year. Think about it. This is even shorter than how a person gets from a death penalty to the execution. Everybody who hears this will probably feel horrible for the patient. This is why treating pancreatic cancer is so important."

This quote inspired me to further research the cancer, the patients' lives, and the treatment of this deathly cancer.



media type="youtube" key="6EvhkBUnxeQ" height="385" width="480"media type="youtube" key="0gOlJrO4zok" height="385" width="480" As said in the video, pancreatic cancer is the 4th leading cause of cancer related deaths, and only less than 10% of the people diagnosed with it survive for a year. Even the most healthy people can get it, and there is no definite cure. Most people probobly think of breast cancer when they hear about foundations supporting cancer, and you have probobly seen the pink ribbon of breast cancer on cars as stickers, on people's backpacks, or even on cereal boxes. This is great that they get funded greatly, but even though pancreatic cancer has many many times more deaths than breast cancer, pancreatic cancer has a very low fund, and is the lowest in the most known types of cancer. There are many who have died from this disease, and because of the low fund, pancreatic cancer's reasearch is still only equivalent to the research of breast cancer in the 1930's. If you ever see a purple ribbon of the pancreatic cancer foundation, please thank them and I hope that you can possibly help the foundation by donating some day. I don't know if you catched it, but in the first video, the patient said,"I am going to die in a matter of few months." He said something in the video, which is "People in research labs can do miraculous things if they are given the materials to do it." At the end of the second video, the same patient, Dr. Randy Pausch, is quoted of this, and says that he lost the fight on July 2008.

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