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Another and probably most important person to have succumbed to pancreatic cancer is Dr. Ralph Steinman,the winner of the 2011 Nobel prize in medicine, who died only three days before the award was announced. In the last few years of his life, he made himself into an extraordinary human lab experiment, testing a series of unproven therapies - including some he helped to create - as he waged a very personal battle with pancreatic cancer.

GVAX among those tested