Apple cofounder Steve Jobs had some peculiar eating habits. From an early age, Jobs would only eat fruits and vegetables, and fasted for several days at a time. When Jobs discovered he had pancreatic cancer, he went against doctors’ wishes and tried healing himself by pursuing an extreme vegetarian diet. […]
The “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek revealed in March that he had stage 4 pancreatic cancer. In a new interview with People magazine, Trebek said that he was responding well to chemotherapy and that some his tumours had shrunk by more than 50%. “The doctors said they hadn’t seen this kind […]
Pancreatic cancer is very difficult to detect early – there’s no screening test for it, and symptoms don’t typically arise until it’s far advanced. The current 5-year survival rate is 9% among all pancreatic cancers in the US, according to the American Cancer Society. Advances in available chemotherapies have led […]