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Sometimes the treatment is worse than the disease.

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https://nypost.com/2026/04/09/health/ex-sen-ben-sasse-opens-up-about-life-with-stage-4-cancer/

Horrible affliction.

My mother-in-law died of pancreatic cancer almost three years ago, and her condition with the spreading tumors was nearly the same as Sasse's.  It's just awful!
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Sometimes the treatment is worse than the disease.
I wouldn't be surprised if  he's enduring this not just because it may extend his life, but because it may help countless other cancer patients down the road.
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In the days following the initial Stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis, doctors also identified lymphoma, vascular cancer, lung cancer and what he described as “bad” liver cancer.
This isn't even metastasis, it's a cocktail of cancers that looks like a high dose of poison.
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This isn't even metastasis, it's a cocktail of cancers that looks like a high dose of poison.

That's what pancreatic cancer does.  It spreads all over and just eats its victims up from the inside out.
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FWIW:

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Former GOP Senator Ben Sasse had Stage 4 pancreatic cancer that spread to his lungs and liver. Doctors gave him 4 months to live.

5 months later his tumors have shrunk 76%. The drug that's saving him isn’t FDA-approved, but he got it through a clinical trial.

So why are never-Trump holdovers at the FDA blocking other dying Americans from drugs that work?

Meet Vinay Prasad. Until recently he ran drug approvals at the FDA and said on his own podcast that he has a Trump “Voodoo Doll” he liked to stab and called Trump voters a "cult." Trump finally pushed him out, but his crew is still there saying “no”.

Prasad's whole career was funded by Arnold Ventures, a foundation built on Enron money, and they handed him $2 million to go hunt for drugs to destroy. They even run an entire "FDA Accountability" project to make approvals harder. Here are some their “kills”:

Melanoma drug - FDA panel said approve but Prasad overruled them.

Duchenne heart drug for dying little boys - Prasad cancelled the advisory meeting before it could happen.

Ataxia drug - Rejected despite hitting endpoints. Harvard doctor told the Senate it was "death by technicality."

Since 2025: 23 rare disease drugs rejected.

Moms of dying kids don't care about the deep state’s "process." They care if their child sees Christmas.

Prasad is gone. His crew isn't and the Enron money isn't.
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