Pancreatic cancer awareness starts to feel different when the losses have names and faces.
This video comes from personal grief, and a pattern that became impossible to ignore.
One family member was taken on Christmas Eve in 2013.
He was also battling cholangiocarcinoma at the same time.
Then the news kept repeating itself through people who shaped a life, including high school teachers.
And it raises a hard question about why this cancer so often feels like it arrives late and moves fast.
You will leave with a clearer understanding of what makes pancreatic cancer so treacherous, and why talking about it matters sooner.
The American Cancer Society puts the 5-year survival rate at just over 13%, and that number changes how you hear every story.
What experience, loss, or warning sign made this topic feel personal to you?
Internal medicine physician Earl Stewart, Jr. discusses his article "Pancreatic cancer racial disparities."
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