http://www.dkimages.comIt’s the big four - breast, colon, prostate and lung cancer - that you always hear about at community fundraising events. But there are thousands of people suffering from cancers that are often much more deadly and get far less research funding.

Pancreatic cancer is a great example of this phenomenon. It’s as common as leukemia, yet most people couldn’t tell you much about it. The disease also has a higher fatality rate than all other cancers - 99 percent, which means just 380 of the 32,180 people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the United States this year will survive.

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