Isn't it about time SOMEONE finds a cure for PANCREATIC CANCER!! A wonderful person 56 is dying right now!!

Is the cancer research for pancreatic and all other horrible cancers a racket for researchers, drug companies and doctors to make money? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!

Isn't it about time SOMEONE finds a cure for PANCREATIC CANCER!! A wonderful person 56 is dying right now!!
I am sorry about your loved one it is very hard to watch someone you love die and there is nothing you can do about it. Two years ago this month I lost a dear sweet caring doctor I work with to pancreatic cancer. We all felt helpless, because we were.





The problem with pancreatic cancer isn’t that we do not have a cure, we do, its surgery. The problem is we do not have a screening exam to catch it early enough to do the surgery.





Cancer is not a money making racket. I live in Los Angeles County where we have had so many hospitals close it is now commonplace for people to wait over 40 hours in the ER to get a room. Hospitals do not close because they are making money.





I am able to make a living because of cancer but that doesn’t mean I want people to continue to suffer from it. If a cure were found tomorrow I would be the happiest person in the unemployment line.
Reply:I'm so sorry you're losing somebody to cancer. I have lost many family members and friends to it, as well as having had it myself, so I truly understand your anger.





But as Inverse says, many wonderful people of all ages die of every sort of cancer.





No, cancer research isn't a racket; cancer costs governments huge amounts of money that would be saved if there was a cure. I live in the UK. I've had surgery chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone therapy. I didn't pay a penny for it, because we have a National Health Service - the state pays for our health care, including cancer care. Cancer treatments cost our government billions; if they could have cured me by giving me a once and for all cure , they would have. As it is, I could be back with a recurrence at any time to cost them many thousands more.





Any drug company discovering a cancer cure would make more money than they could have so far dreamed of making.





Scientists, doctors and researchers develop cancer at the same rate as the rest of the population, as do their families - they want cures as much as anyone. Doctors went into medicine to help people not kill them.
Reply:Wonderful people of all ages are dying from every kind of cancer. And dedicated researchers are studying all these cancers, doing everything in their power to find cures for each type of cancer.





Best thing is to fight, fight, fight the cancer, hope you can live long enough for a new treatment to emerge to help you beat the disease.





It takes many years for every promising new treatment to make it into the hospitals. And most promising new treatments never make it ... they just don't perform as the researchers hope. But the gift these scientists give us, is that the next day, they go back to work trying again to find another new treatment. They are some real heroes in my book.
Reply:My mom died from pancreatic cancer. The funding for it is extrememly limited. If you want to help, go to www.pancan.org. I wish that pancreatic cancer got half of the "publicity" that breast cancer did. The statistics are scary... every year 32,000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Within one year of their diagnosis 31,000 people die from it. I'm very sorry for what you are going through. I know EXACTLY how you feel.
Reply:I lost my mom in 2004 to pancreatic cancer. She was only 53.





Don't waste your time with American Cancer Society,.. they are the biggest black hole of cancer research money known to mankind. They do NOTHING.





I went directly to the advocacy/research/lobby group for pancreatic cancer: the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.


They gave us more information and access to resources in 10 minutes than we did in 3 days of weeding through the cancer society's website.





http://www.pancan.org
Reply:Agreed!! My grandma was only 70 when she died of pancreatic cancer last October. Grr! Some people even hope there is no cure to be found because the research creates jobs and blah blah blah, I don't care! Someone needs to get their *** in gear and find a cure!
Reply:Isn't it about time that cures are found for everything that ails us so none of us wonderful people ever have to die?