Staci Marquez-Nichols was first honored as a writer
with a "Young Author's Award" from her
school district in second grade. Staci got
her start reading poetry at the Northwest
Spoken Word Lab in her hometown of
Auburn, Washington. She graduated with honors from the University of Redlands (Redlands, CA). Staci has published articles with ezines.com, in her college newspaper, the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Association newsletter, and an editorial in the American Bar Association Journal. Staci has published poetry in The Coal City Review, San Gabriel Valley Quarterly, Alternatives to Surrender cancer anthology, and on hotmetalpress.net (http://www.hotmetalpress.net/StaciNichols.html).

My passion is ...

definitely not writing!

I know too much about ...

Well, I think I know everything!

My parents always told me ...

life isn't fair.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a lawyer.

My favorite memory ...

NCAA track nationals in 1999.

Why I write ...

like Ernest Hemingway says...because if I don't I feel like sh*t.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

my laptop.

My first job ...

a file clerk in a law firm.

My best moment ...

during my wedding ceremony, when my husband said, "I do...very much!"

My inspiration ...

Abraham Lincoln and God.

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Understanding the True Nature of Pancreatic Cancer

The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network says that pancreatic cancer is the deadliest kind of cancer with a five-year survival rate of 5%. Less than 10% of people with pancreatic cancer are diagnosed before the tumors spread to other organs.

According to the American Cancer Society, "80% of [pancreatic cancer] patients are diagnosed too late to be helped by surgery. Of those that may be helped by surgery, fewer than 40% are cured." If surgery is an option, the typical survival rate is only 18 to 20 months.

In the article "The Contrib...

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