Has anybody seen this, it's called "The Last Lecture" by a Carnegie Mellon professor, Randy Pausch, who is battling (dying of) pancreatic cancer. It's about 10 minutes long, but it's so worth it and if you don't get choked up at the end, your heart's made of ice...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgyuYHXqlO4
And he posts regular medical updates on his website:
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/index.html