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Health
Katelyn Catanzariti

'Silent killer' - pancreatic cancer cases on the rise

Pancreatic cancer patient Ron Prouse thought his diagnosis was a death sentence. (Matt Turner/AAP PHOTOS)

When doctors told Ron Prouse he had pancreatic cancer, the 61-year-old Adelaide father-of-eight thought he'd been handed a death sentence.

"I'd heard about this stuff - this is the stuff that you die from," he tells AAP.

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