Join fight against pancreatic cancer

November is National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. I encourage readers to visit www.knowitfightitendit.org to learn how to take action against the fourth-leading cause of cancer death in our country.

By the end of this year, this deadly disease will have claimed more than 35,000 loved ones. Among them are notable Americans, including actor Patrick Swayze, NCAA President Myles Brand and NBA Hall of Fame coach Chuck Daly.

Whether they were well known or not, the casualties of this disease are all people like us – mothers, fathers, siblings and grandparents in families like yours and mine.

It hit my family, and it is a devastating disease.

Pancreatic cancer affects more and more people each year. The only way to reverse this trend is to increase the number of people who know about pancreatic cancer and understand how to join in the fight to end it.

Join me and the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network this November and help raise awareness of this deadly disease.

BETTY THOMPSON

Mahomet