BREAKING: 53-year-old former Nebraska Senator, @BenSasse , announces he has Stage four pancreatic ca

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/2003495030015615462

[berdie]

54 is way too young.

[DB]

54 is way too young.

Yes, it is.

[Wingnut]

When it comes to cancer this is the worst.  I wouldn't wish it on any democrat.

[DB]

When it comes to cancer this is the worst.  I wouldn't wish it on any democrat.

I believe bone cancer is also brutal.

[Wingnut]

Sasse represented Nebraska in the Senate from 2015 until early January 2023, when he resigned to become president of the University of Florida. Sasse stepped down as the university's president last year amid his wife's struggles with epilepsy and memory issues.

His poor wife.  I hope his kids will step up. 

[jafo2010]

Read an article by Alex Berenson today indicating a study in Japan provided data that those that received 3 or more mRNA COVID vaccines had an accelerated rate of death with pancreatic cancer, and also other cancers.  And then I read about the senator announcing he is a dying man.

[jmyrlefuller]

Read an article by Alex Berenson today indicating a study in Japan provided data that those that received 3 or more mRNA COVID vaccines had an accelerated rate of death with pancreatic cancer, and also other cancers.  And then I read about the senator announcing he is a dying man.

Berenson is a former New York Times reporter posting slop thinking he can fool gullible anti-vaxxers.

[mystery-ak]

Eric Swalwell Just United the Internet in Hating His Post About Sasse's Cancer Diagnosis

excerpt:

https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/2003578071878893639

"Two out of five of us will be told one day, 'I'm sorry, you have cancer.' Let's make that not a death sentence, but a chance to live decades more," Swalwell wrote.

Seriously?

What is it with Democrats using cancer as a political bargaining chip? Last week, Bernie Sanders blocked the Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act, which had passed the House on a unanimous voice vote. Senator Markwayne Mullin absolutely nuked Sanders from orbit on this saying, "What’s happened right here in front of us: The Grinch is stealing kids’ lives, and they’re stealing hope from the families, hopes from the families that might have an opportunity just to try for a political agenda. And I hope to God that every single family that’s going through this will hold the Senator for Vermont accountable, and the state of Vermont will hold him accountable too, because he’s playing with kids’ lives. He’s literally killing kids in front of us because of his political movement, and it is ridiculous."

Swalwell was similarly destroyed for his take.

more
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/12/24/swalwell-ben-sasse-post-n2668444

[PeteS in CA]

When it comes to cancer this is the worst.  I wouldn't wish it on any democrat.

The survival rate is around 12%, and some of those who survived did so because their cancer was detected accidentally and early.

[Kamaji]

The survival rate is around 12%, and some of those who survived did so because their cancer was detected accidentally and early.

Is that the average for all stages, or for Stage IV specifically?

[bigheadfred]

Is that the average for all stages, or for Stage IV specifically?

All stages

[Kamaji]

All stages

Yeah.  I just looked it up, and for Stage IV, the 5-year rate is 3%.

Hopefully he'll have enough time to get his affairs in order.

[Polly Ticks]

Just horrible.
Prayers up for him and his loved ones. 

[PeteS in CA]

Is that the average for all stages, or for Stage IV specifically?

I wasn't sure. That was the number mentioned, without specifics, at a 5K walk benefitting pancreatic cancer research. Because symptoms tend to be non-specific, I would guess that a significant % of initial diagnoses are at Stages 3 and 4. That was the experience of my Dad's brother (my uncle) in the 1960s (decades before bogey-mRNA vaccines). Tools have improved in the past 6 decades, but recognition of the possible need to use the tools probably still lags.

Speaking of bogey-mRNA vaccines, https://www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrna-vaccines-fight-pancreatic-cancer-msk-clinical-researchers-are-trying-find-out .

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Pancreatic cancer is a horrible disease and it's so lethal because before it's detected it's basically already spread. I hope I can live long enough to see them make some progress against this horrible disease. Although they have actually made some progress. At one point the 5 year survival rate was 5% or something like that.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

In my next life I'll study oncology. It'd have more meaning for me than what I did study.

[Smokin Joe]

Berenson is a former New York Times reporter posting slop thinking he can fool gullible anti-vaxxers.

Well, an article referencing the Japanese Study was available at the NIH until it was later retracted.https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11077472/


The matter remains under debate, and the UK version is summarized somewhat in this article: https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1934

Abstract here: https://journalofindependentmedicine.org/articles/v01n03a02/

I am waiting for more information before I side with either camp.