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Hi everyone, it's DEC.

I'm here to talk a little bit about my mom, who a year ago passed away from pancreatic cancer.

The purpose for this is I want to tell you about an extraordinary life of somebody who was taken too short and overcame incredible obstacles in her life.

And hopefully her story is something that inspires you.

I have a GoFundMe account.

You can find it on GoFundMe under Metafan Show Pancreatic Cancer Month.

I'm going to put a link in the description. If everybody who follows me, which

I don't have a lot of followers, but if anybody, everybody who followed me just donated a dollar,

we'd have a lot of money to battle a pretty awful disease. People who are diagnosed with

pancreatic cancer, the median survival after diagnosis is about three, four months

total. You are put on pretty strong doses of chemo so that it can shrink the tumor so that the

organs aren't crowded out. You're given the choice of, do I have these awful effects of chemotherapy and feel

awful and miserable or do I have a tumor grow unchecked and have the worst pain of my life

and die a quicker period of time? What an awful choice that we have. And by donating to Pancreatic Action Network or

at Pankan and Twitter, we can try and do something to make a dent in this disease. Even if you find it

early and you have a whipple procedure, which is very, very, very, very rare. It's low double

digits of a five-year survival rate. It's like a 1% survival rate for five years if you

have stage four, which is when people generally are diagnosed, which means not only is it in the

pancreas, it's probably in the liver, it's probably in the lungs. It's probably in the bones. It's probably

elsewhere in the body. And there is no screening mechanism because the pancreas is behind everything

in the center of your torso. If you don't know enough about it, it can be like, well, there's

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