It’s very hard to get diagnosed with Stage I pancreatic cancer because that area isn’t really screened for anything and there really aren’t a ton of symptoms. A family friend of ours survived pancreatic cancer because she happened to be having a CT scan of her abdomen for some other ailment which caught it in Stage…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg survived an early stage but she’s literally the only example I can think of.  And clearly, she’s not a good metric by which to judge anything since she’s clearly some kind of insane genetic anomaly or an alien or something.

Tristan has never stopped dating. He had a pregnant girlfriend when he met Khloe. He never gave a fuck. You can’t even call it cheating when he never even tried to hide it. He was waiting on Khloe to dump him. 

My Family’s been living with a inoperable, stage 4 metastatic breast cancer diagnosis for about 2 years now. No progression yet.

Same.  My grandpa thought he had the flu.  It wasn’t the flu.  10 weeks from diagnosis to his passing. 

My understanding is yes, usually the symptoms don’t present until the cancer is always late stage. I had a good friend die of pancreatic cancer, and he wasn’t symptomatic until he suddenly developed diabetes, and by then the cancer had metastasized, and he went fast. It was a matter of weeks between diagnosis and his…

Ovarian cancer is another one that may go for a long time with no symptoms. And when symptoms do appear, they include vague things like “feeling full”. 

I have one friend who was diagnosed with stage 1 pancreatic cancer by sheer accident. He went to the doctor for unrelated back pain and they caught it very, very early. He has survived more than five years now, which is crazy rare. He should buy lottery tickets, because his luck is unreal.

One of the reasons why pancreatic cancer is so deadly is that it’s silent. There are other cancers that are, or can be, found on the early side. Very often, by the time that pancreatic cancer is discovered, it’s at a late stage. 

I posted in a SNS back in the fall that my dad had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At the time, he was about as lucky as a pancreatic cancer patient could be, because they caught it early (small tumor, hadn’t spread) and he was a perfect candidate to have the rounds of chemo followed by tumor removal followed…

Yes. My dad died of it. We didn’t know he had it until it went into his liver. He was dead within two weeks of his diagnosis.The doctor called it a “silent killer.”

I teared up watching that. I had the pleasure of meeting Alex Trebek when I was on Jeopardy three years ago. We filmed on the day David Bowie died. I’m devastated for him and his family. Pancreatic cancer is the most awful thing I’ve ever seen a person suffer through. Alex Trebek is a lovely man who has brought me joy…

“Some members said they were either current lawyers or plan to attend law schools in an effort to provide legal support to the group.” And they’ll go right into the Federalist Society, and wind up as judges in some of the most powerful courts in the US.

If you are a “moderate” voter that constantly votes in radical, reactionary types, how moderate are you, really?

My reaction to the headline was “Trying to infiltrate the GOP?”

The GOP has been a far right organization for quite awhile now. There are no moderate republicans. 

None of this should be surprising in the least. The GOP has positioned these individuals back into the mainstream, and they’re enabling their behaviors.

Ugh this gave me a knot in my gut.

Patrick Casey (who has been a member of the group since its early days and previously used the name Reinhard Wolff)

The GOP is a far right organization. It only appeals to racists and racist billionaires and until we have “one dollar, one vote”, there aren’t enough billionaires to support it.