Pancreatic Cancer: A Cause Close to My Heart
Pancreatic Cancer is why I chose the accent color purple for my website.
Purple is the color for pancreatic cancer awareness. I did this for the same reason I wrote a memoir. Writing it was a complicated and emotional process, which I explained in this interview on my opening page.
Biography of a Friendship is meant to help other women, two friends like us. My friend needed a cure, but there was no cure. There is still no cure. Yet, there are inspiring stories of survival, thanks largely to clinical trials.
With no symptoms until Stage IV, a pancreatic cancer diagnosis is shattering news. Research is marching on, but it needs our help to stop it in its silent tracks.
Since pancreatic cancer awareness is a cause close to my heart, I support PanCAN's PurpleStride—The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Walk/Run to End Pancreatic Cancer—because PanCAN's mission is "to create a world in which all patients with pancreatic cancer will thrive." PanCAN does this through groundbreaking programs such as Precision Promise and Know Your Tumor, a personalized treatment instead of a clinical research study of a group of patients. It also supports patients and loved ones 'every step of the way.'
PanCAN's website facilitates the understanding of the medical and psychological journey that is pancreatic cancer.
Unless a life-threatening illness strikes a loved one, we don’t relate to the urgency of finding a cure... for any type of cancer.
“There’s a feeling of family [at PanCAN]. It’s not just a job for its staff, it’s their mission. Anything I can do to further PanCAN’s mission, I will.”
“There can be no reason for me to stop. No matter what pain I suffer, it is nothing compared to the pain of those who have cancer, of those who endure treatment."
"I wish I had known earlier that the persistent stomach pain I experienced prior to my diagnosis was a symptom of pancreatic cancer."
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