“Severe brain injuries can effect every aspect of someone’s life.  A severe brain injury can affect all aspects of people’s lives, including relationships with family and friends, as well as their ability to work or be employed, do household chores, drive, and/or do other normal daily activities.”

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

“Dementia is not a specific disease. It’s an overall term that describes a group of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person’s ability to perform everyday activities. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60 to 80 percent of cases.”

Alzheimer’s Disease (www.alz.org)

“The doctors on your cancer treatment team might include:

• A surgical oncologist: a doctor who specializes in treating cancer with surgery
• A radiation oncologist: a doctor who specializes in treating cancer with radiation therapy
• A medical oncologist: a doctor who specializes in treating cancer with chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and targeted therapy
• A gastroenterologist: a doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases of the digestive system.”

American Cancer Society

“Pancreatic cancer is highly lethal because it grows and spreads rapidly and often is diagnosed in its late stages.  Chemotherapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer can extend life and improve the quality of life, but it rarely cures the patient.”

Medicine.Net

“A big part of the reason why pancreatic cancer is so deadly is that it’s difficult to detect early. By the time it’s diagnosed, the cancer is usually late stage and hard to treat.”

CBS News

“The exact cause of pancreatic cancer is still unknown, but there are known risk factors that increase the risk of developing the disease. Cigarette smoking, a family history of pancreatic cancer or hereditary cancer syndromes, and chronic pancreatitis are some of these factors. The most common form of pancreatic cancer is pancreatic adeno-carcinoma, an exocrine tumor arising from the cells lining the pancreatic duct.”

Columbia Presbyterian Hospital (columbiasurgery.org)

“Colorectal cancer is a cancer that starts in the colon or the rectum. These cancers can also be named colon cancer or rectal cancer, depending on where they start. Colon cancer and rectal cancer are often grouped together because they have many features in common.  Most colorectal cancers start as a growth on the inner lining of the colon or rectum. These growths are called polyps; where some of them can change into cancer.”

American Cancer Society

“Hemophilia is one of the more common inherited types of bleeding disorders. Currently, about 20,000 individuals in the United States have hemophilia. Although hemophilia most commonly occurs in men, it can also occur in women.”

National Hemophilia Foundation

“Von Willebrand disease (VWD) is almost always inherited. “Inherited” means that the disorder is passed from parents to children though genes. You can inherit type 1 or type 2 VWD if only one of your parents passes the gene on to you. You usually inherit type 3 VWD only if both of your parents pass the gene on to you. Your symptoms may be different from your parents’ symptoms.”

NIH-National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

“Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease.”

Multiple Sclerosis Foundation