People walk past a flag display at Anschutz Medical campus in Aurora on Nov. 10, 2013, during National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Each flag represented a person diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)
November is National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month and I am urging our community to join the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network to Wage Hope in the fight against the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States.
Our pancreatic cancer community is made up of volunteers, advocates, survivors and caregivers; all trailblazers who are fighting for progress no matter what it takes. It means we never surrender in our pursuit to change patient outcomes. It means the five-year survival rate at just 6 percent must change.
Three years ago, I lost my wife to pancreatic cancer at age 47. I understand firsthand the urgent need to Wage Hope for all those diagnosed with this very difficult disease.
Please visit www.wagehope.org and join us in our efforts to Wage Hope in the fight against pancreatic cancer.
Karl Moran, Centennial
This letter was published in the Nov. 27 edition.
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