RIP Trigger

[Jonj1611]

Gave me loads of laughs over the years, RIP Trigger! -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25762006

[santa claus]

RIP Trig.

Dave

[g8ina]

Ahhhh, I wondered why the news coverage earlier, missed the salient fact due to having the sound off...

He was a superb character actor and will be really missed.

[opel80uk]

I met him a few times at OFAH's conventions (geek), and he was a very nice, funny gent..... and a bang on lefty to boot...... RIP

[Jonj1611]

Another lost to cancer, one day I hope the world will be rid of that damn disease.

[Joe75]

Only just heard about this
Sad news. Pancreatic cancer seems a particularly bad one. Obviously, all types are ad but this is the second person I'v heard about this week, the other was a friend's mum who only found out a couple of weeks ago.

[Saracen]

Sad news, indeed. RIP, Trig.

As for cancer, serious strides forward have been made in recent decades, and the position is MUCH better than it was even or 30 years ago. But you're right, pancreatic is one of those with lower survival rates than many, not least I suspect, due to later detection.

The good news is that slow progress is being made on the process of understanding the mechanics of cell mutation, and that offers some interesting potential routes for treatment. For all the improvements in treatment over the last few decades, there's decent dreason to hope for further significant improvements in the next couple of decades. It'll be too late to help a lot of us, probably including me, but offers hope for the future.

And in case anyone misinterprets that, by not "helping me", I mean I'm of an age where I may be too late for the changes, NOT that I (that I am aware of) have cancer.

[sammyc]

RIP Trig, very sad to hear. Coming across a manky tomato will never be quite the same again now.

[opel80uk]

As for cancer, serious strides forward have been made in recent decades, and the position is MUCH better than it was even or 30 years ago. But you're right, pancreatic is one of those with lower survival rates than many, not least I suspect, due to later detection.

The good news is that slow progress is being made on the process of understanding the mechanics of cell mutation, and that offers some interesting potential routes for treatment. For all the improvements in treatment over the last few decades, there's decent dreason to hope for further significant improvements in the next couple of decades. It'll be too late to help a lot of us, probably including me, but offers hope for the future.

You are spot on. The problem with Pancreatic cancer is when the tumour is confined to the pancreas itself, there are usually no symptoms, and so is detected only once it has spread. Early detection before spread followed by surgery, +/- radiotherapy is effectively the only treatment that offers a realistic chance of long term survival. The problem is that the vast majority of people with pancreatic cancer who are detected before spread are incidental findings, i.e. they came in with another, unrelated complaint and the tumour is picked up when investigating that complaint, usually by CT.

But they will get there. The Francis Crick Institute should open in London next year, and if they can help continue the upward trajectory of survival rates for most cancers that there has been over the last few decades, coupled with further advancements in early detection and prevention (i.e. vaccines), hopefully there will be less and less good people taken from us.

I’m sure Trig would drink a pint of the Nag’s Head diesel oil to that.

[Guy]

RIP Trig.