. >> joe krebs and alex trebek, they are strengths in our community and them using their voice is putting a spotlight on the disease, and we are thank for their courage and bravery, and i am sure stephanie as a ze kerr ph survivor can attest to this disease. >> your story, stephanie? you dire nosed at stage one. >> stage 1b. >> which is unusual, because it's usually diagnosed at a later stage. >> absolutely. i was very fortunate. my diagnose happened after an inc ental fighting,and i was a minor pain in my belly that radiated to my back, and i told my physician about it and he said let's do a sonogram of your kidneys to make sure everything is okay, and when they did they thought they saw a mass on my spleen. from there they had to do more imaging sstudo i had a cat scan followed by an mri, and they found out it was not on the and n but the pancrease, the final diagnoses happened. >> your father was diagnosed? >> yeah, by the time he was diagnosed, he passed very quickly and it w at that point that i started doing research because i did not pt know a lot about this disease, and i didn'h k