As young boy my mom went to the doctor and they discovered a cist on her pancreas. When she told us I was distraught and was scared because this is the first time in my life that my family was really hit by something none of us could control. Luckily the procedure was easy and they removed it without a problem. This past year my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and my uncle with brain cancer. My mom had a surgery performed in May to remove the cancer cells and had to do six weeks of radiation. They did the same thing with my uncle but this past summer they found a mass on his spine that was cancerous and they told us it was only a matter of time. He died this past month. It was painful to just watch as his body just slowly started