??? re: Panc. cancer!

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Dear Kimiber,

WOW, that really scares me... Scares the bejesus outta' me!

You think that persons with Pancreatic Cancer have probably HAD IT all

ALONG???

I'm not doubting or belittling your intuition - that just scares the heck

outta' me.

Is that based, by any chance, on something that you've read or run across??

This is significant - I hope that you will be able to find the bit of

research that lead you to this conclusion. That could be significantly

life-altering for many of us on several levels. Time for some research,

sister! Haha. Sorry to bug you with this, but since you said it, I want to

READ this! This is a VERY big deal!!

I realize that once someone is diagnosed with Panc. Cancer, life expectancy

drops down the tube rather quickly and abruptly - that may add some credence

to your theory - as in, " it's been there, undiagnosed for years, and now that

we've found it, you may have little time to live " , but right now that just

seems like some (extremely depressing) theory. I hope that it's not

accurate, but if you've come across something to support that, I believe that

is EXTREMELY important study/news for this group.

Please, please... find your old notes, your old saved files, bookmarks,

etc... This one really is worth spending some time on if you've run across it

somewhere in the past.

Thanks Kimber...

I REALLY am looking forward to some of that research!!

Thank you SO much.

Peace,

Terry in KC

<< Cyndie, people with chronic pancreatitis have a slightly

higher chance(5 or 10%? I think? the articles I read were a

while ago and I'll have to go through all my papers to find

them) to get pancreatic cancer, but in most of the articles

I've read, those who had this happen all smoked too. They

don't know what it is about smoking that does this, just

that it correllated to it somehow. Personally, I think those

who do have pancreatic cancer after having pancreatitis have

had it all along, it was just mis-diagnosed (there's a

lovely little though isn't it?). Both are very hard to

diagnose. Kinda a chicken or the egg deal. Don't know if

this is of much help, but that's what I know. As soon as I

have some extra time, I'll look through my articles to see

if I can find them for you.

Kimber >>