Patrick Swayze and Gene Upshaw.

[Grace]

One of the 'silent' cancers that are usually well advanced before causing symptoms. I can believe that Upshaw only felt sick for a week before his diagnosis.

Medicine is full of mysterious events. I worked in Neuro ICU for a few years. We would see some patients with brain tumors - tumors that did not start in the brain, but were mets from somewhere else in the body. Usually these tumors come from the lungs, but there were a few cases where the primary tumor was never found.

[K9karen]

My John's mom died from PC.

My neighbor's symptom was a sore on his leg that wouldn't go away. He thought he had bumped himself while on vacation. Of course it had spread by then. He only lasted a few months and walked around with a portable morphine machine. it was terribly sad.