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Old 01-18-2011, 08:56 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by ardeegee View Post
Pancreatic cancer is one of the least curable cancers. 5 year survival rate was 4.6% (meaning 95.4% of people who had it died within 5 years) as of 10 years ago, according to:

http://cancer.emedtv.com/pancreatic-...val-rates.html
Damn. For my grandma, it was barely a month & 1/2 from diagnosis until she passed away. Life sucks.

I do hope the best for him. I read somewhere that the problem was his immune system (from the transplant), but he was described as emaciated, which really points more to the CA.
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