Is it my lack of noticing things except at odd times or are there
more cases of Pancreatic Cancer going about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreatic_cancer

Gareth died of it.
List of people who died from it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pancreatic_cancer_deaths
List of people who survived their battles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pancreatic_cancer_survivors

Stats for 2007:
http://pancan.org/About/pancreaticCancerStats.html

The latest celebrity to deal with it is Patrick Swayze:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080306/ap_on_en_mo/people_swayze_cancer;
_ylt=Aq4OUeqXdsfIe8imUvup_c534T0D

A Senator from Indiana, David Ford died of it recently.
http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/SE/20080306/NEWS/803060317

Steve Jobs from Apple has dealt with it for over 9 months and is
surviving. We can only hope that more people can be successfully
treated for it.

I know it sounds morbid, but I never heard of it until the news of
Gareth's death. And it seems to be a disease that is gaining
attention. Checking Yahoo news for it, there are other cases
reported where someone looses a battle with it after 6-10 months. It
sounds pretty scary because the battle seems pretty short and
uncertain. But outside an occasional celebrity getting it, it is
rarely heard of or reported. At least I never noticed it before.

Just something I pondered this morning.

Cal