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FDA-APPROVED OPTUNE PAX ADDS A NEW WEAPON AGAINST LOCALLY ADVANCED PANCREATIC CANCER A new type of cancer treatment is giving some patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer another option. In February 2026, the U.S. FDA approved Optune Pax, a wearable device that delivers Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) to the abdomen. It is approved for adults with locally advanced pancreatic cancer, used together with the chemotherapy drugs gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) HOW IT WORKS: WEARABLE DEVICE → adhesive arrays are placed on the skin of the abdomen → the device delivers alternating electrical fields called Tumor Treating Fields → the fields interact with dividing cancer cells → they can disrupt processes involved in cell division → the treatment is given together with gemcitabine + nab-paclitaxel chemotherapy WHY THIS MATTERS: Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most difficult cancers to treat, particularly when a tumor is locally advanced and cannot initially be removed surgically. Optune Pax offers a different approach: instead of relying only on drugs, it adds electrical fields designed to interfere with cancer-cell division. The treatment is also non-invasive and portable. Patients can receive the therapy at home while continuing their other cancer treatment. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) REFERENCES: • U.S. FDA — “FDA Approves First-of-Its-Kind Device to Treat Pancreatic Cancer,” February 12, 2026. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) • Babiker HM, et al. — “Randomized, Open-Label, Pivotal Phase III PANOVA-3 Study,” 2025. (PubMed) • ClinicalTrials.gov — PANOVA-3, NCT03377491. (ClinicalTrials.gov) • Optune Pax — FDA-approved indication and safety information. (Optune Pax) DISCLAIMER: This content is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or medical condition. Optune Pax is an FDA-approved treatment for a specific group of adults

Leo Tolstoy was born on this day, September 9, 1828. His epic novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are monumental works of realism that portrayed Russian society and explored the human condition. He underwent a profound spiritual and moral crisis in middle age, eventually rejecting many conventions of the Russian Orthodox Church and developing a philosophy centered on nonviolence, simplicity, conscience, and love. His later ideas influenced figures such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Music was extremely important to Tolstoy. His novella The Kreutzer Sonata takes its title from Beethoven’s famous violin sonata and uses music as a vehicle for exploring passion, jealousy, sexuality, and marriage. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” “If you look for perfection, you will never be content.” “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

I don’t eat here often. Now I know why. The food: sauce ration is all wrong. 30 sauce packets? For one taco? And one mini taco salad? Something is wrong with this picture. 😏

I love God today more than even yesterday if that's even possible! God has answered so many of my prayers in these last year and a half it's just remarkable! I love when I feel Him close to me which is often. My life would be complete I think if all three of my children were in my life I miss them terribly. My heart hurts when I think about them. At this point I just have to leave it to God He knows my heartache #Joshua_1_8

please keep a look out for this young man! Christopher has mental disability and his family is searching for him possibly seen two weeks ago on 4th and Olive! Family is from out of state and will be heading there on September 20th. please notify number on flyers if seen! Thank you and God Bless!

Bible Verse for September 9 😎 Romans 8:37,38 - For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Grinding out this OT on 2nd shift can be brutal sometimes

Money Trail: Findling hammered home that the prosecution failed to show a physical financial connection, calling it "the bounty case with no money, [and] the stalking case with no stalking." He pointed out that there were zero bank transfers, checks, or direct digital footprints tying Lil Durk to a bounty payment

Just a little reminder that confidence looks beautiful. ✨💕 Taking life one smile at a time and enjoying every moment. 🥰

Psalm 30:5 “For our light, momentary affliction, this slight distress of the passing hour, is evermore and more abundantly, preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory beyond all measure, effectively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!” We’re still here…reaching for the hem of His garment, seeking whatever He has for us, knowing, without a doubt, it’s good. We announce our human frailties before Him, asking His favor for each one. We may even give instruction as to how we think our restoration should look…He causes us to remember He’s got a plan not to harm us, but a plan to prosper us. A plan of goodness and grace, mercy, and compassion, love and forgiveness. He reminds us to be patient as our weeping lasts just for the night. We can trust Him when He tells us Joy comes in the morning…with the Light, and with that Light there is Life. Sometimes it ‘feels’ like our night lasts for an entire season, perhaps even longer. We wait for the Joy we know that’s coming. While we wait, we press in to Him, we hold on to Him, we trust in Him. Knowing we’re not alone in the ‘night’ gives us Joy and comfort, a strength we otherwise wouldn’t know we could have. Strength that comes from knowing He’s in us, and we’re in Him, safe in His Refuge. We’re still here… What ‘time’ is it. Is it night…Or is it morning? Knowing we cry out and He answers, that He keeps us…we can’t slip through His fingers, knowing His name is Mercy and Grace…We sing to the end, our tongues and hearts and everything glorious within us, we sing praises to Him. We’ll not be silent, we give thanks to Him forever…whether it’s ‘night’ or ‘morning’, in season or out, we sing His praise.