Pancreatic cancer is a nasty, stubborn killer that has thus far defied medicine's best efforts at early diagnosis and curative treatment. In November, it claimed the life of my friend Peter L. Zimroth, a 78-year-old New York City attorney who was devoted to public service and who most recently oversaw the decline in the police department's stop-and-frisk strategy. Mr. Zimroth had been on my "most admired" list even before he married the esteemed actress Estelle Parsons, who was 16 years his senior. Even during his yearlong, albeit losing, fight against cancer during the pandemic, Mr. Zimroth remained devoted to the public good, designing a brightly colored T-shirt and cap bearing an urgent plea, "Smash the Virus! Get the Shot," and raising more than $73,000 to support research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where doctors tried valiantly to buy him more time. Mr. Zimroth was fit and active and in otherwise good health before symptoms developed — in his case, stomach pains and constipation. By that time, the cancer had spread and it was too late to operate. His death follows that of several other well-known people who have succumbed to the same disease: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,… Read full this story
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