Amazing News

My grandfather died of pancreatic cancer, nearly 40 years ago. I was barely five at the time, so I never got to know him. About 15 years ago or so a close friend of our family died of the same disease. And, of course, Pavarotti was a pancreatic-cancer victim, too.

It's a diagnosis that comes as a death sentence. But that may be changing. Marilyn Horne has apparently finished a course of experimental treatments for pancreatic cancer, and she now declares herself cancer-free. It's obviously wonderful to have Horne back. But even more wonderful is that this new treatment, a vaccine, works.