DELUCA DETAILS HIS OWN PAST PANCREATIC ILLNESS DURING PROCLAMATION

Mayor Vic Deluca discussed his own pancreatic scare at Tuesday night's Township Committee meeting during a proclamation for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Day on Nov. 17.

"About six years ago, I was really sick, I lost a lot of weight, all my insides were not working properly and I ended up in the hospital," he said. "I had no idea what was going on."

He said he was found to have had a tumor on his pancreas. 

"It's a deadly, silent killer," he said. "Luckily, I was one of the very few, that my tumor was noncancerous."

See more of his comments and the proclamation below, during which it was noted that pancreatic cancer has surpassed breast cancer in the number of cases each year: