Every time a celebrity dies of cancer I always hope that it’s not pancreatic but the numbers keep increasing. Patrick Swayze, Steve Jobs, Alex Trebek, Aretha Franklin, now Jerry Springer.
As someone with type 2 diabetes it’s something I worry about very often.
Steve Jobs died of a pancreatic neuroendocrine Tumour. It should not be grouped with pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The former is approximately 7-8% of all pancreatic tumors and has a much better prognosis of almost 90% at 5 years if it's caught early. In Jobs case it was. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma has a dismal prognosis of <10% at 5 years.
Edit. My Pancreatic cancer knowledge is a bit outdated but I recall type 2 diabetes being a risk factor for pancreatic cancer. I believe in some cases pancreatic cancer can cause diabetes because of the damage it does to the pancreas.
Unless your tumors are functional(i.e. they are neuroendocrine tissue and can secrete hormones) or rapidly growing, it's not a very severe disease and there are treatments available. After 6 years of monitoring by a leading oncologist, she was told she would live a long life and die of something else.
That doesn't stop me from needing to pay her huge amounts of money for alimony, but it is what it is. Steve Jobs died because he was an idiot who tried quack therapies.
Same story: about 6 weeks from diagnosis to death. He was in otherwise good health for a 76 year old.
Fuck PC.
You can help here: https://pancan.org/
Matt Bencke, co-founder, CEO of Mighty AI, had pancreatic cancer. see https://finance.yahoo.com/news/change-day-170633700.html
and [TRIGGER WARNING - sad] https://www.wired.com/story/the-day-i-found-out-my-life-was-...
I wish there were easier ways to check for it early.