Cancer
Patrick Swayze died yesterday. This is upsetting to me for reasons that have nothing to do with Patrick Swayze.
He survived pancreatic cancer for 20 months. Pancreatic is a particularly nasty form of cancer. You don't normally find it until it's in stage 4, which is part of why the median survival from time of diagnosis is only 3-6 months. For a while, he was proof that a person can outlive a diagnosis.
As you may have guessed, I care about all this because someone close to me was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. So far her treatment is very successful, but...
But.
A bit of hope died today.
He survived pancreatic cancer for 20 months. Pancreatic is a particularly nasty form of cancer. You don't normally find it until it's in stage 4, which is part of why the median survival from time of diagnosis is only 3-6 months. For a while, he was proof that a person can outlive a diagnosis.
As you may have guessed, I care about all this because someone close to me was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. So far her treatment is very successful, but...
But.
A bit of hope died today.