PHOENIX (AZFamily) — There’s fresh hope for pancreatic cancer patients. While the five-year survival rate is 13%, doctors and researchers are making great strides to increase awareness for earlier diagnosis and better outcomes.
We caught up with one survivor who says sometimes, you need a lot more than a second opinion. Demetra Salls says she just knew something was very wrong.
“I could not get out of bed,” Salls said. Fatigued beyond her typical master’s course load at ASU, she didn’t stop at a second or third opinion on what was causing her severe abdominal pain and cramps. She went to seven different doctors in a year to get an accurate diagnosis…