pancreatic cancer
Hundreds of fans lined up outside the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan on Tuesday, to pay their respects to Aretha Franklin. Franklin will lay in state for three days before her funeral on Friday. The Queen of Soul died at 76 from pancreatic cancer earlier in the month.
Delayed diagnosis of the disease is part of the reason.
Nearly half of patients don’t know they have pancreatic cancer until they end up in A&E
Research suggests the survival rate is often worse than previously reported.
Do you know the symptoms to look out for?
'It would be truly something amazing.'
Catching the disease early is absolutely vital.
Pancreatic cancer currently has one of the worst cancer fatality rates.
They hope to develop a cure in the next four years.
Cancer deaths are falling for both men and women.