I was asymptomatic. I felt great. We were shocked. I said it's like getting hit by a freight

trained. We were stressed, panicky, and quite upset. I was diagnosed with inoperable stage

four locally advanced pancreatic cancer.

And I was told that most people in my condition didn't survive more than nine months.

It's a very dangerous cancer, even if it when it's newly diagnosed, because it spread so fast.

I was in such disbelief that I couldn't even tell anyone for a moment.

I couldn't even speak.

I was lucky to get a second opinion, and I think that is very important.

I think that any type of cancer that you should at least have two opinions, and then you decide where your best treatment is going to be.

I was told there was no hope for me, and I was told, go home and prepare to die.

And that just wasn't acceptable to me or my family. I mean, I was very scared. I knew that I had a

really bad cancer. I knew I had the cancer that had killed my mother. What I knew about pancreatic

cancer was not good. So I was very scared, but I knew that there still had to be some hope,

that I had to have hope. And hope is free. And faith is free. Those are the voices of hope,

where there once was no hope, patients in their final stages of pancreatic cancer that were sentenced to die, and then managed

to instead survive. It's a huge deal because only 4% of pancreatic cancer patients are still alive

five years after their diagnosis. The odds couldn't have been more stacked up against them.

Call them lucky, call them smart, whatever you call them,

they all had one thing in common. They trusted their doctors and they were super grateful for

both the medical team and the treatment breakthroughs that gave them a second chance at life.

I'm Mike James in for Kim Commando, and on this Commando on-demand podcast, you're going to learn

some promising treatments

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