Once again, throughout November, I shall be fundraising for Pancreatic Cancer, in memory of my dearest Dad, and I know that he’ll be right by my side as I walk 10,000 steps each day.  So many of you were so generous last year with your sponsorships and I kindly ask you to consider sponsoring me again this year; however little it may be, it goes towards the funding of research into this brutal cancer, in the hope that a better understanding of symptoms and an earlier detection of this cruel and relentless disease will prevent many others in the future from a death sentence.  

I understand completely that every cancer is brutal but this silent killer is insidious and, by the time a diagnosis is made, it is, more often than not, already too late to help.

Though my Dad was elderly, he was so physically fit; and the signs of pancreatic cancer were missed by his GP for several months, blaming indigestion and old age for his symptoms of stomach pain, weight loss and backache.  When eventually he saw a specialist he was given six months to live; he lasted for three…