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Pancreatic Cancer

What do actor Patrick Swayze, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Detroit Lions Security Chief Ricky Sandoval, Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch and opera singer Luciano Pavarotti have in common? They were all, at one time, given a cancer diagnosis – specifically, pancreatic cancer. Sadly Ricky Sandoval, Randy Pausch and Luciano Pavarotti are no longer with us, but their public battle against this monstrous disease are helping raise awareness about one of the deadliest of all cancers, and helping clinicians find a cure.

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Cancer

Modern day society has been touched and deeply effected by one simple disease: Cancer. To this day, since it’s first description found in an ancient Egyptian papyri written between 3000-1500 B.C., it still has no clear cure. The before-mentioned source referred to breast tumors. The oldest recorded specimen of human cancer was found in the remains of a female skull, circa the Bronze Age (1900-1600 B.C.).

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