Pronews 7 President and CEO Thom Pritz and family
It's the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States.
Pancreatic cancer.
About 44,000 people will be diagnosed with it in 2012 alone, according to the National Cancer Institute. Of those people, about 37,000 will die fron the disease.
The National Cancer Institue also said that within the first year of diagnosis, almost 75 percent of pancreatic cancer patients die.
That wasn't the case for Pronews 7 President/CEO Thom Pritz. In 2005, he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. The odds of him being alive today were bleak, less than five percent.
He truly went from hospice in 2005 to healthy in 2012 and that's why he is passionate about helping to double the survival rate by 2020.
June 26 is National Call In Day where you can let your congressmen and congresswoman know you support funding the research of this deadly cancer.
Click here to join the movement and demand Congress pass critical pancreatic cancer legislation.
