The Delta Flyers - PANCAN with Armin, Kitty, Frakes, Billingsley, and Juan Carlos - Video
Added 2023-11-06 05:00:03 +0000 UTCThe Delta Flyers is a weekly podcast hosted by Garrett Wang & Robert Duncan McNeill. This week’s episode is a special interview with Kitty Swink, Armin Shimerman, Jonathan Frakes, John Billingsley, and Juan Carlos Coto as they discuss their connections to pancreatic cancer and pancan.org
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Comments
I want to thank you for this conversation and advocacy. More people need to push for early detection and awareness. i lost my mom to a very hard struggle to ovarian cancer. Like pancreatic cancer, it does not have a diagnostic test or early detections and symptoms present as many other things. Even the yearly PAP and gynecologic exams don't pick it up. Mom had to be her own advocate and get doctors to take her seriously. Women's health care is often misdiagnosed and dismissed and that causes death in some cases. She had a hysterectomy just a couple years before being diagnosed and had begged for them to take her ovaries with her uterus, her tubes had been tied for 30 years...she wasn't using them. The doctors refused, saying she was too young to go into menopause and refused to give her the hormone supplements and take her ovaries. Just a couple of years later she was sick and when the doctors finally did a blood test and CT they found she was late stage 3. Ovarian cancer has a 80% fatality rate with in 5 years. She fought hard. Went through major surgeries, intense chemo multiple times, and signed up for every trial she was possibly qualified for just so if she wasn't going to survive, they could use her case and data to advance the research. She did that so if my sister and I got sick, we had a better chance of surviving. She was an advocate for the future of immunotherapy and saw the science leading that way. She died before she turned 54. There needs to be better early detection and diagnostics at yearly physicals. There needs to be better understanding and research for signs and symptoms. There needs to be advocacy for a solution and being proactive. There is not a day that goes by that i don't miss her. it has been 8 years now and my dad, sister, and i are still going through the stages of grief , lost without her. We have grown closer but mom was the glue. Cancer destroys everything. Not just the person fighting it, but the family, community and support group of those who love that fighter. She lost her fight 3.5 years after diagnosis. Thank you for educating others and being advocates. Thank you for having these discussions. May we all see a future that Star Trek promotes, medical technology and scientific research to better care for the citizens and community of this world so we can tell cancer to F!@# off. Star Trek is hope and enlightenment. Science and compassion are the vehicles to get us there.
Amanda Hobson
2025-01-30 14:49:36 +0000 UTCGreat conversation. I am a physician and pancreatic cancer diagnosis has been important. The issue is finding a lower cost screen. An option is ultrasound of the abdomen. An expensive one ($949 USD) is the Galleri blood panel that screens for 50+ cancers, including pancreatic. That one is promising, but, at present, too expensive for yearly screens for most of our population.
Lee Stroud
2024-08-07 06:17:51 +0000 UTCI have walked in DC’s Purple Stride for many years now. Thank you for sharing your stories and bringing PanCAN awareness to your listeners. 💜
Shoshanah Drake
2023-11-26 03:03:45 +0000 UTCThis was incredibly informative and touching. Thank you all for sharing.
Jennifer
2023-11-21 03:43:06 +0000 UTC
