FAU Professor Beats All Odds Surviving Two Bouts of Pancreatic Cancer
Florida Atlantic UniversityIn what his physicians have called a “miraculous recovery,” Steven Lewis, Ph.D., has survived two bouts of pancreatic cancer—the first time in 2007 and again almost three years later when the cancer metastasized to his liver. With the highest mortality rate of all major cancers, pancreatic cancer patients have less than a five percent survival rate within five years of diagnosis, and 74 percent of patients die within the first year of diagnosis. Lewis has persevered major surgeries, radiation treatments and chemotherapy with a highly positive attitude and strong emotional support. He has just published a book detailing his survivor story and his message of hope to cancer patients and their families.