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Pancreatic Cancer

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GrannySanZ9 Mon 31-Mar-14 23:42:22

Sadly a lot of people on here will know the awful survival statistics of pancreatic cancer. Less than 3% live longer than 5 years from diagnosis and 17% for a year. Only 1% of the public purse is spent on research of this cancer yet its the 5th biggest killer in the UK. Can I ask a huge favour. A friend of mine, a lady widowed in her 40s, started a petition 51 weeks ago to get the Government to view the spending on this cancer. We have one week left to get another 27,000 signatures. Please would you add yours. You can sign twice per email address using different names. Here is the link. Many people would be so very very grateful.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/48389

GrannySanZ9 Mon 31-Mar-14 23:43:33

If clicking on the link doesn't work please just google the words Hope is Contagious. There is more about the reason for the petition all on there. Please please do this - we only have a week.

penguinpaperback Mon 31-Mar-14 23:49:59

epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/48389 this should work.

penguinpaperback Mon 31-Mar-14 23:50:44

It does and I've signed.

Tegan Mon 31-Mar-14 23:52:52

Can't get onto the site but will try again tomorrow. I know a frightening amount of people that have suffered from it sad.

Tegan Mon 31-Mar-14 23:55:06

Link worked and have signed it.

harrigran Tue 01-Apr-14 00:08:55

Signed it and so has DH who has a different e-mail address to me.

boheminan Tue 01-Apr-14 00:35:27

Signed. In memory of my dear friend Otis who was killed by this cancer at the age of 45.

Charleygirl Tue 01-Apr-14 08:58:37

Sorry, refuse to sign it- too much information required. I refuse to give my address etc.

Aka Tue 01-Apr-14 09:04:10

Ditto.

shysal Tue 01-Apr-14 09:16:49

Signed in memory of my dear father.

Lindylooby Tue 01-Apr-14 09:20:32

Signed in memory of my darling husband died 16th April 2013....4 days after diagnosis. X

maxdrans Tue 01-Apr-14 09:44:02

Done

henetha Tue 01-Apr-14 10:39:21

I too object to giving my address, so I typed "Is this necessary?" into that space and it accepted it. But I had to give town and postcode to get through. So that more or less gives my address away.....
This is such a worthwhile cause. A good friend of mine has this cancer and it's heartbreaking. More research is desperately needed.

harrigran Tue 01-Apr-14 12:50:20

Do you really think the government don't know exactly who you are and where you live ?

Sook Tue 01-Apr-14 13:07:27

Signed.

Genevieve489 Tue 01-Apr-14 15:55:43

Signed in memory of a good friend, who died too soon from this awful disease.

Ana Tue 01-Apr-14 16:09:05

It's not the government I'd be worried about if I shared my name and address on this petition, and others like it.

durhamjen Tue 01-Apr-14 17:40:51

Ana, the government needs to see that you are a UK citizen as it is a government petition, but nobody else gets to see your address. It just gives the number of people who have signed up to it.
I am sure I trust the government a lot less than some people on gransnet, but I sign up to loads of petitions on this website. It's better than signing up to 38 degrees, etc.
It's been going for longer than this government has been in power.

durhamjen Tue 01-Apr-14 17:42:05

Have signed up for it, too, but there should also be one for brain cancer, which is another of the Cinderella cancers, that gets very little research money spent on it.

merlotgran Tue 01-Apr-14 17:46:43

Signed in memory of a good friend who died six weeks after diagnosis.

tanith Tue 01-Apr-14 18:29:39

Done

granjura Tue 01-Apr-14 18:55:28

Done, in the memory of my best friend Jacqueline, who died aged 52, 5 months after diagnosis.

moomin Tue 01-Apr-14 19:30:26

Signed

GrannySanZ9 Tue 01-Apr-14 20:59:25

Thank you to all the lovely people who have signed the e petition to improve funding for pancreatic cancer. Unfortunately the Hope is Contagious website was down this morning but is up and running now again. Could I ask that all of you who have signed please share this with family, and friends to get them to sign too. We have just a few days left and it would be a shame to fall at the last hurdle. Thank you so much.
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/48389
Or
Hope is Contagious.