Pancreatic cancer conversations with practical hope.
Living Hope treats pancreatic cancer as both a medical crisis and a daily human experience. Its conversations move between clinical trials, surgery, research, emotional strain, family support, advocacy, and the hard work of finding reliable help.
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Living Hope is a pancreatic cancer support show with a community-radio heart. It is built around long, careful conversations with people living near the disease: survivors, advocates, clinicians, researchers, family members, and patient-support voices. The show does not rush past the frightening parts. It talks plainly about diagnosis, treatment, emotional shock, statistics, research gaps, and the pressure of deciding what to do next. Then it keeps looking for the next useful step. Roberta Luna’s lived experience gives the conversations a steady center, especially when guests talk about fear, persistence, medical teams, and the need to keep asking for options. Paul Roberts often plays the role of the curious, sometimes blunt, listener in the room, slowing down technical subjects so they can be understood. Recent episodes spend serious time on clinical trials, including informed consent, patient protections, safety monitoring, and why extra attention during a trial can matter emotionally as well as medically. Other conversations look at pancreatic and HPB surgery, robotics, treatment sequencing, transplant oncology, early detection, prevention, and the long hope of making pancreatic cancer curable. The show also makes space for practical support. PanCAN patient services, Let’s Win PC, advocacy, donations, PurpleStride, and contacting representatives all appear as concrete ways people can seek help or push the field forward. Its strongest episodes move from one person’s story into usable guidance. A diagnosis becomes a conversation about reliable information. A survivor’s family becomes a lesson in endurance and support. A funding worry becomes a discussion of research dollars and public action. Living Hope is serious because the disease is serious. It is also warm because the show understands that frightened people need more than facts. They need repetition, company, and a place to start.
Made for: For pancreatic cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, families, and advocates who want plain-language support alongside medical and research context. It also suits listeners looking for patient stories that lead to resources and next steps.
What sets it apart: Living Hope blends lived experience with resource-driven conversations, so episodes rarely stop at awareness alone. The show keeps connecting emotion, medicine, advocacy, and patient services in one accessible community-radio format.
Hear from the people actually living with pancreatic cancer for inspiration and education about this deadly disease.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Living Hope turns pancreatic cancer experience into practical guidance on care, trials, emotional support, advocacy, and finding credible help.
Living Hope keeps pancreatic cancer at human scale, with Roberta Luna guiding conversations that move between treatment decisions, emotional strain, research advocacy, and survival.
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A clear look at clinical trials, informed consent, and the patient support that can make pancreatic cancer treatment easier to navigate.
Living Hope looks at clinical trials for pancreatic cancer with a steady, practical hand. It explains how trials work, what informed consent asks of patients, and which protections are meant to be in place.
A calm, practical look at the emotional side of pancreatic cancer.
This episode treats pancreatic cancer as more than a medical issue. Roberta Luna and Ana Gonzalez keep the focus on patients, survivors, and caregivers, and the result is clear without feeling cold. The tone stays steady, even when the subject does not.
A direct, hopeful conversation about pushing back on statistics and keeping faith with the next step.
This episode follows Nick Pafani through a hard conversation about pancreatic cancer, and it does so without softening much. He comes across as candid and determined, while the hosts keep pressing on the parts that matter: diagnosis, treatment, family, and the refusal to accept…
A conversational account of pancreatic cancer that keeps survival, research funding, and community work in view.
Living Hope follows Robert Panacci's story with a clear focus on pancreatic cancer, survival, and the case for keeping research funded. It also leaves room for the community around the disease and the medtech and bioscience work that sits beside it, so the discussion never feels…
A steady, practical conversation about surviving pancreatic cancer and taking concrete action.
The episode follows a live studio conversation with Gary Fong, a retired automobile executive, fundraiser, and pancreatic cancer advocate, and it stays with the practical realities that come after a diagnosis.
Reported stories of responsibility and its consequences.
Researchers, doctors and coaches, translated into everyday health stakes.
Living Hope host interviews Dr.
Ashley Baylor tells host Paul and co-host Roberta Luna that her father was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer in 2019 after a CT scan, once weight loss and abnormal blood sugar in his type two diabetes prompted his physician to look further.
Living Hope comes back to clinical trials and pancreatic cancer, with Megan Lyles back for a second conversation after listener questions showed there was more to say.
The conversation moves from the physical realities of treatment to the emotional weight of pancreatic cancer.
This episode features an interview with clinical trials expert Megan Lyles, who explains how clinical trials work, addresses common myths, and discusses their importance in advancing cancer treatments, particularly for pancreatic cancer patients.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode discusses the progress and hope in making pancreatic cancer a curable disease, featuring an interview with Dr.
Robert Panacci returns to Living Hope with a pancreatic cancer story that starts with patient experience and moves into advocacy, then into consulting for a venture capital company that wanted his perspective on pancreatic cancer.
Paul Roberts and Roberta Luna welcome Nick Pafani for a hopeful conversation about living with pancreatic cancer.
Roberta Luna opens the studio to Gary Fong for a conversation about pancreatic cancer, survival, and advocacy.
This episode features Teona Ducre, an eight-year pancreatic cancer survivor, sharing her personal journey and discussing efforts to raise awareness and empower the black community.
This episode discusses KSUM, a national organization that supports children dealing with a parent's cancer diagnosis, featuring students from Chapman University who share their work and the importance of addressing how cancer affects families beyond just the patient.
This episode features an interview with Amy Reese, Director of Patient Programs at the Hirshberg Foundation, discussing resources, events like the upcoming 18th symposium, and support for pancreatic cancer patients and survivors.
Sarah Banks shares her personal journey with her mother's fight against pancreatic cancer on the Living Hope podcast, providing hope and education for those affected by the disease.