as you mention eld the disease patrick swayzee, steve jobs, they get the disease and 70% die in the first two years. this is a death sentence unfortunately. partially because we are not catching it early. 80% of the patients who have pancreatic cancer had this tumor marker. who is walking out there with pancreatic cancer we don't know about? 38,000 die because of this. that's not a good ratio. a lot of people are dying from this. who are the people that are at risk? if are you a smoker, smoking comes up again. obesity, diabetes. if you have had pancreatitis, alcohol. if you are a male over the age of 45 and family history are you at risk. you should tell your doctor you have this so they can screen more. now pancreas is about 6-inch organ under the stomach. it is hard to get to it and that is why mark and other doctors, we can't examine it and find. it liver is easy and other organs are easy and the pancreas is ther surgery is the treatment of choice. when we find it in the hands of experienced surgeons, laproscopicly it is easily handled with chemotherapy. there are a lot of great studie