Local pancreatic cancer survivors share their recovery stories

Shriners Children’s Research Institute announced plans Wednesday, July 2, to locate a $153 million medical research facility in Atlanta (Pixabay)

Barbara Washburn, a National Pancreatic Foundation patient advocate, and Elise Tedeschi, a co-affiliate chair of PanCAN‘s Atlanta affiliate of volunteers, can both remember the day they received their pancreatic cancer diagnosis.

“My doctor told me that I had less than nine months to live,” said Tedeschi.

Tedeschi, who was diagnosed 12 years ago, and Washburn, who was diagnosed five years ago, were guests on WABE’s “Closer Look”  to spread awareness about the disease on World Pancreatic Cancer Day.