We need hope!

As I spend most of my time these days fighting Pancreatic Cancer for others, I can get hopeless. I am human. It is like anything else, it is easy to feel like you are working so hard for no results. I know that is not entirely true, but as I meet with different people everyday and study this cancer, it can really be depressing. That is an understatement at best.

Pancreatic Cancer has a 95% mortality rate. Do you want to hear you have it? Do you want to hear your mom/wife/dad/brother/sister/husband etc has it? I am pretty sure you are thinking: "No", following with a knot in your stomach.

Not only do almost all die from this cancer, the battle is gruesome. Yet, only 2% (In 2009 only 2% of the National Cancer Institute's budget of 5 BILLION dollar budget was spent on pancreatic cancer) is given to Pancreatic Cancer research. How does this make sense? It doesn't. It makes me LIVID. Anyone who has experienced this disease, or that has a "walk a mile is someone else's shoes" mentality gets that this is absolutely NOT right.

The correlations are unfair. They are limiting the cancer because no one talks about it. No one wants to hear the statistics. Well, if those who have died from this cancer were here today, trust me, you'd be hearing about it: Just like we hear about breast cancer and the horrific fight through chemo. Not only do Pancreatic Cancer patients go through all of that, they also die. They fight and have no results. I am generalizing here, because again, the percentage is 95%.

PLEASE- I AM BEGGING- be aware that this cancer NEEDS help. We need hope. Pancreatic Cancer needs research funding.

Trust me, I do not want to think about this cancer either. I saw my precious mother die in front of my eyes because of it, but we have to do something.