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Researcher Story: Paul J. Grippo, PhD
I learned a valuable lesson about this disease firsthand. In a weekly men’s group meeting at my church, I watched one of my fellow members slowly decline in health, never realizing that he was suffering with pancreatic cancer. What surprised me the most was that despite studying this disease myself for over a decade, I could not recognize it in someone I had grown close to and known for several years. It was devastating to have that knowledge but be unable to provide my friend with valuable insight concerning his condition years before his...
Researcher Story: William G. Hawkins MD
The most difficult part of tackling what seems to be an insurmountable problem is getting started. When I reflect on pancreas cancer, pancreas cancer research and the current state of events regarding the disease, it is clear that we are off and running. I am proud to report that I have bore witness to an exponential explosion of progress in the fight against pancreas cancer. Each month, I become ever more hopeful that a major breakthrough is within reach.As a very young child, I lost my grandfather and a cousin to cancer. I had a...
Researcher Story: Ru Chen, PhD
I started to realize that cancer was a very serious word when I was a child. My mom was then a physician, so I had heard firsthand about how devastating this disease was. Through the inspiration and encouragement of my mom, I was determined to become a researcher to work on how to cure cancer ever since my childhood, My early dream became a reality after I moved to the United States for graduate school. I chose to study colon cancer as my graduate research project. After I finished my graduate work, I focused my post-doctoral research on pancreatic...
Researcher Story: Ben Stanger, MD, PhD
The first time I came face-to-face with pancreatic cancer, as a third year medical student, I had no idea how bad it was. I assumed – like most people – that some combination of surgery, chemotherapy, would be available and slow progression of the disease, at least somewhat. But of course, early detection methods and effective treatments for pancreatic cancer are sorely needed. As I learned more about the disease during clinical training, this contradiction puzzled me: What is it about this cancer that makes it so likely to spread prior to detection? Why is...
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