As a star-studded crowd in Detroit wished a final farewell to Aretha Franklin the Queen of Soul, a relatively unheard-of group of patients around the world reflected on the suffering they had shared with her: neuroendocrine cancer. For the last seven years of her life, Aretha Franklin was being treated for a type of ‘pancreatic cancer’. Since her death on August 16th, hundreds of media commentators have been asking the question: How did she survive for so long when pancreatic cancer is usually very aggressive?’ The most common cancer of the pancreas we hear about is a pancreatic adenocarcinoma, which

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