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Equals: Great new TOYS: Fender Telecaster, big Macintosh computer!
This Christmas: Nikon D-90 camera.
And I feel great!
Light 'em up, chump!
Pancreatic Cancer's Grim Toll
The fourth-leading cause of U.S. cancer deaths, pancreatic cancer doesn't attract anywhere near as much attention or funding as diseases such as breast cancer.
Though this cancer is relatively rare -- it's expected to strike about 37,680 Americans this year -- almost all who get it will die within five years of diagnosis.
It's a baffling disease: Nobody knows what causes it, its symptoms are vague and we don't have a means of detecting it early; buried deep in the abdomen, the pancreas is a tricky organ to perform surgery on. Chemo may buy time but rarely cures this cancer.
-- Jennifer Huget
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