Patrick Swayze Near Death With Pancreatic Cancer

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Pancreatic cancer unfortunately has something like a 3% 5-year survival rate, which really sucks. It's usually caught too late, and it's location in the body makes it very easy to spread. I'd often thought though that one of the bigger risk factors for the disease was someone who drank a lot for a large portion of their life... though I guess genetics play a factor as well.

Such a sad story.