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Linda Stevenson |
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January 23 , 2007
- Crystal Abbott |
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My name is Crystal. I'm only 27 and have already experienced the death of my best friend, my mother. She passed away July 2005, after only a short six weeks from being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Being a nurse, I was aware that pancreatic cancer was an extremely fatal cancer with no ability to recognize it until the final stages, giving it the name "the silent killer". She remained completely healthy up until the last 6 weeks. Although she didn't have to suffer for many months or years, the suffering was severe and seemed like it was much longer.
There are diagnostic tests available for almost every form of cancer, as well as treatments for nearly every cancer. However, when it comes to pancreatic cancer, people don't really hear about it as much. You see pink ribbons on cars, shoes, and almost everywhere for breast cancer, but not pancreatic cancer. In fact, there are no tests to run to detect the cancer in it's early stage where it is "fightable".
As this cancer is highly genetic, my sister and I run higher risks for this cancer, and are aware we are possibly facing a disease that is a 'silent killer'. I would love nothing more than to be able to support technology, science and medicine to come up with these valuable tools and tests. It would be wonderful to know that someday the words "pancreatic cancer" may not be an ultimate death sentence for someone and their family members.
Because of this, I have always told my husband that I wanted to donate to Pancreatic research and although we can can make personal donations, I wanted to do something bigger. Thats when he stumbled on other pixel site and he decided he could make one for me and see what we could do to raise money for the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research.
I hope you enjoy the site, advertise and help us make a difference. If you have a loved one that has gone through an episode with pancreatic cancer and would like to share it, please email your experience to crysabbott@hotmail.com.
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