There are cancers, and then there is pancreatic cancer. It is the one that oncologists fear the most. The five-year survival rate is roughly eleven percent — one of the lowest of any cancer. By the time most patients are diagnosed, the cancer has already spread beyond the pancreas. Treatment options are limited. The timelines are short.
When a doctor says "pancreatic cancer," the room changes. The air leaves. The future shrinks.
Ken Gorman heard those words in England. And the timeline they gave him was not years. It was weeks.
The Diagnosis
Terminal pancreatic cancer. The diagnosis came with the kind of directness that British oncologists are known for — compassionate but unblinking. The cancer was advanced. The options were few. The time was short.
Weeks. Not months. Weeks.
Ken Gorman was facing the cancer with the lowest survival rate in one of the most aggressive scenarios possible. From a purely medical standpoint, the story was already written. The only question was how many pages were left.
The Church
But Ken's church community did not read the same story the oncologists were reading. They read a different book — one that says what is impossible with man is possible with God.
When the church learned about Ken's diagnosis, prayer began. Not the polite, arm's-length kind. The urgent, desperate, daily kind. The kind that comes from a community that knows one of their own is dying and refuses to accept it without a fight.
They prayed in services. They prayed in small groups. They prayed in their homes, at their kitchen tables, in their cars on the way to work. Ken Gorman's name was spoken before God with a frequency and intensity that only comes from genuine love and genuine faith.
The Disappearance
What happened next has no comfortable medical explanation.
The pancreatic cancer disappeared.
The cancer that carries one of the lowest survival rates in all of oncology — the cancer that had been diagnosed as terminal, with a timeline measured in weeks — was gone. Scans confirmed it. The medical team documented it. The cancer that had been there was no longer there.
Ken Gorman — the man who had been given weeks — was alive. And the cancer was not.
The Significance
It is important to understand what makes Ken Gorman's healing so striking. This was not a cancer that sometimes goes into spontaneous remission. Pancreatic cancer is notoriously resistant to treatment, let alone unexplained disappearance. The medical literature has very few cases of terminal pancreatic cancer resolving without explanation.
When oncologists encounter a case like Ken's, they do not have a tidy box to put it in. The data does not support what happened. The survival curves do not account for it. The treatment protocols do not explain it.
What explains it is a church that prayed and a God who listened.
What This Means for You
If you or someone you love is facing pancreatic cancer — the one everyone says is the worst, the one with the lowest numbers, the one that makes even doctors go quiet — Ken Gorman's story is a direct challenge to despair.
The statistics are real. The survival rates are real. The difficulty of pancreatic cancer is real. But Ken Gorman's healing is also real. And it says something that the numbers cannot: God is not limited by survival rates.
The cancer with the lowest survival rate disappeared from a man who was given weeks to live. That did not happen because of a breakthrough drug or an experimental treatment. It happened because a church in England prayed, and God answered.
If it can happen with pancreatic cancer, it can happen with anything.
