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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(24):2070-2071; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.24.2070
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 24, 2070-2071, December 15, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

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Celebrity's Death Spurs Interest in Rare Cancers

Tom Reynolds

When former Chicago Bears star running back Walter Payton revealed in February that he had a rare liver disease, the headlines slanted optimistically, with doctors calling his prognosis "very promising" if he got a liver transplant.



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  		Walter Payton

 
Sadly, that chance never came for Payton, the National Football League's all-time leading rusher. His primary sclerosing cholangitis led swiftly to bile duct cancer, as it does in 10% of PSC patients, and in November he was dead at age 45.

Payton's death thrust into the spotlight a rare cancer that normally gets scant attention. And according to experts and advocates who work with these less common cancers, unfamiliarity underlies most problems faced by patients with these diseases. In some cases, lack of medical knowledge and public awareness leads to deaths that might have been prevented; in others, to years of unexplained misery.

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