Matthew Modine: Man on a Mission
By Allan Richter, Energy Times
Matthew Modine supports a number of health and environmental causes, the most personal of which is The Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research. The actor’s father died of pancreatic cancer in 1995, and his brother died of complications of the disease last year. “Hopefully someday detecting pancreatic cancer will require nothing more than a routine blood test,” Modine says. “Some of the science is truly mind-blowing.”
But there is something of the underdog in pancreatic cancer that also resonates with Modine. Pancreatic cancer leaves those afflicted with little chance for survival, and Modine says research for pancreatic cancer, which has been called an “orphan disease” for the relatively little support it has received, has been woefully underfunded (see box below, left).
Modine remains sanguine and philosophical about the devastating impact pancreatic cancer has had on his family. “This may sound harsh, but death is a consequence of life,” the soft-spoken actor tells Energy Times. “Who really knows where we come from or where we end up once the journey is over? It is one of the great mysteries of life. What I have learned and continue to embrace is that life is about the journey—learning, loving and discovering.”
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Causecast leader Matthew Modine is the founder of Bicycle For A Day, a great organization that seeks to spread the message of cycling to help improve the environment and our personal health. Last year, more than 14,000 people attended the inaugural Bicycle for a Day event in New York City.
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