'She lived 10 years with this disease. She beat the odds, and it was a remarkable fight.'
Ginsburg had yet to graduate high school when her mother, Celia Bader, died from cervical cancer. Years later, her husband, Martin Ginsburg, was diagnosed with testicular cancer and underwent two surgeries. He died in 2010 of complications from metastatic cancer. The two had been married 56 years.
"It has remained one of the most, if not the most difficult cancer for us to treat," said Dr. Brian Wolpin, director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Center and Hale Family Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute."It does tend to present late, and there are not many specific symptoms for pancreatic cancer. They tend to be things like abdominal discomfort or weight loss.
Pancreatic cancer can be painful because the pancreas is located near many nerve endings, Donahue said. It often causes back pain, he said. There's no colonoscopy or mammogram equivalent for pancreatic cancer, and it's often discovered incidentally, experts say.
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