The Detroit News
"It has the worst prognosis of any major human malignancy. It is the most dreaded cancer to get."
—DR. DIANE SIMEONE, director of the Pancreatic Tumor Clinic at the University of Michigan, speaking about pancreatic cancer, for which singer Aretha Franklin is reportedly being treated [via The Detroit News]
Only 5% of those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer can expect to survive five years, and 36,800 Americans will die of the disease this year, according to the National Cancer Institute. Among celebrities, Patrick Swayze recently succumbed to it, though Steve Jobs and Ruth Bader Ginsburg have both successfully beaten the illness.
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