Wilma Mankiller dies Updated: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 Wilma Mankiller, a onetime Oklahoma farm girl who grew up to become an American Indian activist and the first woman principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, died Tuesday. She was 64. Mankiller was recently diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Services are pending. Mankiller served as principal chief... Read More

Soft Drinks Hard on Your Health Published: Sat, Feb 20, 2010 If you need one more reason to cut down on your consumption of sugary soft drinks, the results of a new study may help. Researchers at the University of Minnesota recently reported their findings that individuals who drank two or more carbonated, sugar-sweetened sodas each week had nearly double the risk of... Read More

A sister's story Updated: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 Editor's note: November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Following is a letter from an Oklahoma City resident who has seen the devastation caused by the disease. November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. I was the caregiver for my twin sister who was diagnosed in September 2005 as having pancreatic... Read More

Golf Classic to raise money for pancreatic cancer research Updated: Thu, Jun 25, 2009 OKLAHOMA CITY— It is tee time for Ford Audio-Video and the University of Oklahoma’s Pancreatic Cancer Research Foundation. The AV company will host their Fifth Annual David Schultz Memorial Golf Classic on Wednesday, July 29. The Golf Classic will be at Rose Creek Golf Club, 17031 N. May Ave., Edmond, Okla.... Read More

Cancer patients find support through online communities Updated: Thu, Apr 23, 2009 Dan Brackett uses the Internet to help pancreatic cancer patients band together and fight an unsympathetic source of depressing information: the Internet. "They (pancreatic cancer patients) do what we’ve learned to do when we’re faced with something like a cancer diagnosis: they Google it,”... Read More

Pancreatic cancer Published: Mon, Apr 28, 2008 Jim Edwards believes in the power of having a good attitude. And with good reason — something has kept him alive despite being diagnosed in Feb. 2005 with one of the deadliest cancers a person can get. Also called exocrine cancer, pancreatic cancer was diagnosed in an estimated 37,170 men and women in... Read More

Garden Walk brings cancer awareness Updated: Sun, Nov 13, 2005 It often remains silent until it's too late. We're talking about pancreatic cancer. It's a hard one to beat in fact, for those diagnosed with it, 80 percent don't survive. But as Kirsten McIntyre found out, some Oklahomans are taking lots of steps to change that. Read More

Pancreatic cancer awareness urged Updated: Sat, Nov 12, 2005 November is a month of turkeys and falling leaves, but it's also Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. And it's something we should all aware of because it's so hard to detect. But that may change thanks to Oklahoma researchers. Read More