After taking the doctors orders over a month ago, Aretha Franklin canceled all concert dates and personal appearances through May. Franklin began to experience a mysterious illness which lead to surgery. After the completion of a successful surgery, The Queen of Soul was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer WJBK Fox 2 in Detroit, spoke with a family member and the information was confirmed that the National Enquirer's report Wednesday was true. Pancreatic cancer, is the disease that claimed Patrick Swayze and Micheal London
Franklin released a statement after the surgery stating: "God is still in control," Franklin said in a statement after her surgery, which was deemed "highly successful." "I had superb doctors and nurses who were blessed by all the prayers of the city and the country." Franklin has been visited several times by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who on Wednesday said she was "recovering very well" from surgery.
Today her cousin released a statement confirming that the ailing legendary singer is "doing better than doctors expected" and expects to be released from the hospital this weekend.
Brenda Corbett tells the Detroit Free Press for a Thursday story that Franklin "has a long life in front of her and will be back in concert, on stage, late spring or early summer."
Our hearts go out to her and the family. For those of you that do not know about the disease check out these facts! Who does it affect? Where does it begin? How?
Pancreatic cancer begins in the tissues of your pancreas — an organ in your abdomen that lies horizontally behind the lower part of your stomach. Your pancreas secretes enzymes that aid digestion and hormones that help regulate the metabolism of sugars.(www.mayoclinic.com)
Symptoms may include the following:
- Upper abdominal pain that may radiate to your back
- Yellowing of your skin and the whites of your eyes (jaundice)
- Loss of appetite
- Weight loss
- Depression
- Blood clots
- Increasing age, especially over age 60
- African American
- Being overweight or obese
- Chronic inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis)
- Diabetes
- Family history of genetic syndromes that can increase cancer risk, including a BRCA2 gene mutation, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, Lynch syndrome and familial atypical mole-malignant melanoma (FAMMM)
- Personal or family history of pancreatic cancer
- Smoking
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