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Jef Raskin also had pancreatic cancer.

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All these people too. Hopefully someday we make an effort to cure it. We’ve made so little progress.

Randy Pausch - Last Lecture

Steve Jobs

Patrick Swayze

Sally Ride - astronaut

Piers Sellers - astronaut

Hans Rosling

Richard Hatch

Michael Landon

Bill Hicks - Comedian

Jef Raskin - Macintosh

Aretha Franklin

Luciano Pavarotti

Sharon Jones

Alan Rickman

Dizzy Gillespie

Benoit Mandelbrot

Wernher von Braun

Matt Bencke, former CEO of Mighty AI (bought by Uber in 2019).

He was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

Trigger warning: https://www.wired.com/story/the-day-i-found-out-my-life-was-...

Part of the problem with pancreatic cancer is detection. Most people (like my dad) are only catching it when it is stage 3 or stage 4 and you're already way on the wrong side of the odds. If you catch pancreatic cancer as stage 1 or stage 2 in most cases the odds are basically 50/50.

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