{"id":2447682,"date":"2019-08-18T08:33:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=873095"},"modified":"2019-08-18T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T14:33:11","slug":"aretha-franklin-estate-backs-fund-to-research-rare-form-of-pancreatic-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/aretha-franklin-estate-backs-fund-to-research-rare-form-of-pancreatic-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Aretha Franklin Estate Backs Fund to Research Rare Form of Pancreatic Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A year after Aretha Franklin<\/a>\u2019s death, a fund backed the singer\u2019s estate has been launched to help research the rare form of pancreatic cancer<\/a> the Queen of Soul suffered from.<\/p>\n

Franklin died in August 2018 after a battle with a neuroendocrine tumor (NET) on the pancreas, a form of cancer that is the cause of only 7 percent of pancreatic cancer cases; Apple CEO Steve Jobs similarly died following a relapse of the rare disease in 2011.<\/p>\n

On the one-year anniversary of Franklin\u2019s death, Detroit\u2019s Women\u2019s Informal Network and the singer\u2019s estate held a benefit to donate money to the Boston-based Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation (NETRF), which established<\/a> the Aretha Franklin Fund for Neuroendocrine Cancer Research, the Detroit Free Press<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Aretha Franklin Family is honored to partner with the NETRF to help raise funding for education and research of this devastating disease that takes our loved ones much too soon,\u201d Sabrina Owens, Aretha Franklin\u2019s niece and representative of the family, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe encourage her friends, fans, and supporters to consider contributing to this cause, until such time as we can eradicate NETs. We believe this is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the work we fund is basic science in the laboratory, learning why these tumors grow and spread,\u201d Elyse Gellerman, chief executive officer of NETRF, told the Detroit Free Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know all the answers about that. Researchers are trying to understand these tumors at a cellular level and \u2013 with some of the treatments available \u2013 why some patients respond and others do not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gellerman added that the fund would help raise awareness about the rare disease, \u201cI know the neuroendocrine tumors community was frustrated when the cause of Aretha Franklin\u2019s death wasn\u2019t correctly reported.\u201d<\/p>\n

Franklin was reportedly first diagnosed with the disease in 2010 and staved off rumors about her health for years. Franklin\u2019s oncologist Dr. Philip A. Philip told the Free Press<\/em>, \u201cThe time that people have with this disease is measured in years, not in fractions of years or months, as it is with most patients (who have the more common) pancreatic adenocarcinoma.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A year after Aretha Franklin\u2019s death, a fund backed the singer\u2019s estate has been launched to help research the rare form of pancreatic cancer the Queen of Soul suffered from. Franklin died in August 2018 after a battle with a neuroendocrine tumor (NET) on the pancreas, a form of cancer that is the cause of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 02:23:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}