Family of grandfather Robert call for greater awareness of the quickest-killing cancer that took his life

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A Lanarkshire grandfather, who passed away only nine weeks after his pancreatic cancer diagnosis, at no time acknowledged that he was dying.Instead, Robert McKee quietly accepted his fate in a display of what his daughter, Carole Hughes, describes as “some amount of strength.”Back in July 2019, to mark their mum’s 70th birthday, Carole and her sister Laura treated their parents to a trip to London and tickets for the Tina Turner show.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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Eating was uncomfortable and he had trouble digesting food.When, on Christmas Day, Laura asked Carole to take a photograph of their dad and his four grandchildren, she made her excuses and left the room to mask her tears.“He hadn’t been diagnosed at that point – but I knew it was going to be his last Christmas,” said mum-of-two Carole.Robert dismissed the ache in his legs as a side effect of a statin.

Although he was soon diagnosed with diabetes, he didn’t display the tell-tale signs of thirst and weight loss.Then, in January 2020, doctors at University Hospital Monklands confirmed the worst fears