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pipoman

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10. my sister died of it a year and a half ago.

Reply to PasadenaTrudy (Reply #8)

Sat Apr 19, 2014, 10:54 AM

Apr 2014

The reason pancreatic cancer is almost always a death sentence isn't because it's untreatable, it's because early diagnosis requires expensive diagnostic tests not allowed by most insurance without symptoms to justify it. By the time the symptoms occur, it is usually untreatable.

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Get Rich, Live Longer: The Ultimate Consequence of Income Inequality [View all] xchrom Apr 2014 OP

Living longer may not be all it's cracked up to be. CFLDem Apr 2014 #1

I agree yeoman6987 Apr 2014 #2

No one wants to live forever if it means living a very unhealthy life forever. There are people who MillennialDem Apr 2014 #7

It is about diagnostic physicals pipoman Apr 2014 #3

I was diagnosed with stage III kidney cancer two years ago when my annual physical revealed it. Jgarrick Apr 2014 #4

I'mnnot saying that the physicals we are allowed by pipoman Apr 2014 #5

I don't disagree with your larger point. Jgarrick Apr 2014 #6

My sister PasadenaTrudy Apr 2014 #8

my sister died of it a year and a half ago. pipoman Apr 2014 #10

So sorry... PasadenaTrudy Apr 2014 #12

True but not everyone rich is ok yeoman6987 Apr 2014 #9

Nobody lives forever pipoman Apr 2014 #11

Health care policies are important, obviously daleo Apr 2014 #13