A year after a rare form of cancer ended the life of legendary singer Aretha Franklin, her memory is inspiring more funding to try to find a cure.
The Aretha Franklin Fund for Neuroendocrine Cancer Research has been launched by the Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation in Boston, the Detroit Free Press reported.Franklin died on August 16, 2018 from the disease."A lot of the work we fund is basic science in the laboratory, learning why these tumors grow and spread," Elyse Gellerman, chief executive officer of NETRF, told the publication."We don't know all the answers about that.
Read MoreAretha Franklin's youngest son has filed for control over the late singer's estateNeuroendocrine tumors afflict about 171,000 people in the United States and it's an often-misunderstood disease.Apple mogul Steve Jobs also died from the rare form of cancer in 2011 and Gellerman said neuroendocrine tumors make up just 7% of cancers in the pancreas.Pancreatic cancer is actually a different form of cancer known as pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
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