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Patrick Swayze illness raises awareness of pancreatic cancer
March 12, 2008
As news broke that Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, UK Internet searches for the illness increased 10-fold from the week before to reach the highest ever peak during the week ending 8 March. Awareness of the cancer has also increased with searches for 'pancreatic cancer symptoms' rising. Half of all searches for 'pancreatic cancer' are going to Cancer Help, a cancer information service, and 9% of searches to Wikipedia.
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