Personalized cancer care helps pancreatic cancer survivor get back to life
Joseph Lecak has a zeal for life. He enjoys golfing, tending to his vegetable garden and traveling all over the U.S. with his softball team.
But a pancreatic cancer diagnosis in March 2025 changed everything. At one point during treatment, he got so sick that he resigned himself to whatever quality of life he was going to have while he got his affairs in order.
Thanks to a personalized treatment plan at UT MD Anderson, Joseph...
2-time cancer survivor thankful for UT MD Anderson’s guidance and expertise
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He’d...
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Can you screen for pancreatic cancer?
The symptoms of pancreatic cancer are vague and often don't appear until the latter stages of the disease. As a result, pancreatic cancer often goes undetected until it is fairly advanced, when it’s harder to treat successfully.
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