Wilma Mankiller, 64, the Cherokee Nation’s first female chief, has been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer, according to an Associated Press story that ran in the Muskogee Phoenix on March 2.
Mankiller served as the Cherokee’s chief from 1985 to 1995. She has coped with several ailments in her lifetime, including a muscular disorder and lymphoma and breast cancer.
Pancreatic cancer is a silent killer, as it often does have distinctive symptoms. Survival rates are low: the one-year relative survival rate is 20 percent and the five-year rate is 4 percent.
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