Pancreatic Cancer Can Be Scary, Hospice Care Isn’t
Although my maternal grandfather died of pancreatic cancer, I never imagined that I would lose my mother to the same illness shortly after I read the pancreatic cancer proclamation last year.
African American families like ours have a significantly higher risk of pancreatic cancer than do White American families. This terrible disease affects people of all walks of life, including Steve Jobs, John Lewis, Alex Trebek and D’Angelo.
What may be more alarming are the data that the incidence of cancer is increasing among younger adults.
Scary, surprising, unfair, unbelievable were all words used to describe our responses to my mother’s diagnosis.
Author's summary: Pancreatic cancer affects many families.
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