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Over 35,000 Americans are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer each year.
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Cancer of the pancreas is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. This year approximately 37,000 Americans and 188,000 worldwide will die from cancer of the pancreas. The disease is not only common, but it is also extremely difficult to treat. For these and other reasons, cancer of the pancreas was called "the challenge of the nineties". Unfortunately, it is still a challenge.
"The Johns Hopkins Medical Institution has become the leading center for the treatment and study of pancreas cancer.
Surgical removal ("resection") of the cancer is currently the only chance for a cure for patients with cancer of the pancreas. Fortunately, great strides have been made in the surgical treatment of this disease.
The 5-year survival rate for patients who underwent a Whipple procedure for cancer of the pancreas here at Hopkins is now approaching 25% (40% for some patient subgroups), compared with a 5-year survival rate of less than 3% overall for patients who do not receive treatment.
Unfortunately, many cancers of the pancreas are not resectable at the time of presentation. Chemotherapy and radiation therapy are the main treatments offered to patients whose entire tumor cannot be removed surgically ("unresectable cancers"). "
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Richard Crenna - 1926 - 2003 (actor)
Alan Bates - 1934 - 2003 (actor)
Emily Couric - 1947 - 2001 (Virginia state senator)
Michael Landon - 1936-1991 (actor)
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Harry Blackstone Jr. - 1934 - 1997 (Magician)
Juliet Prowse - 1936-1996 (actor)
Detroit News account
Henry Mancini - 1924-1994 (composer)
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Note: A former Evening with the Stars (PanCAN's annual fundraiser) was in honor and memory of Mr. Mancini.
Donna Reed - 1921-1986 (actress)
Donna Reed Foundation
Vince Edwards - 1928 - 1996 (actor)
Marcello Mastroianni - 1924-1996 (actor)
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Count Basie (William Allen) - 1904 - 1984 (composer)
Johannes Brahms - -1897 (composer)
Bill Hicks - 1961-1994 (comic/musician)
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Dizzy Gillespie - 1917-1993 (musician)
Fred Gwynne - 1926 - 1993 (actor)
Rex Harrison - 1908 - 1990 (actor)
Fiorello La Guardia - 1882 - 1947 (NYC mayor)
Joan Crawford - 1904 - 1977 (actor)
Simone Signoret - 1921 - 1985 (actor)
Irving Wallace - 1916 - 1990 (writer)
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