Wow, this is seriously upsetting. The fact that so many people are dying of pancreatic cancer is very, very scary to me, and it's so many young people at this point.
It's one of the few that's still difficult to detect, and by the time you show symptoms you are basically stage 4... it's treatable if you catch it early, but therein lies the problem; My grandfather passed away from it.
I'm sorry to hear that, someone I knew closely died of pancreatic cancer and died 6 weeks after diagnosis which is why it scares me so much. Did your grandfather smoke, or drink a lot of alcohol? Or drink a lot of tea or coffee?
Yeah he smoked a tobacco pipe, as grandpas do, but didn't drink alot was in relatively great physical health for his age before that. He was 70. This was in 2000.
He lived about a year after his diagnosis, which occurred when he was jaundice. His health / quality of life was ok after, some weeks were good, some were bad, but yeah it was stage 4 when they caught it, and there is / was only so much you can do, especially 23 years ago.
Fun Fact: He worked on the Univac! Spent his career with Unisys afterward.
