UPDATE AS AT 21 JAN 2023 – a leading US cancer organisation accepts that NETs are not rare I don’t like to gloat, but this post is heading for its 8th birthday. UK and Australian figures recently confirmed that Neuroendocrine Cancer is the 10th and 7th most common cancer type. Several NET specialists in USA […]
Orginal post – 25th Nov 2014. The papers and social media seem to be full of awareness and early diagnosis articles this month. This coincided with World Neuroendocrine Cancer Day on 10 Nov and Pancreatic Cancer day on 13 Nov. Social media was, therefore, buzzing with messages from organisations supporting and advocating for both of […]
Edit: This article was written in 2015. Since then, I have moved to 12-month surveillance periods. I also changed the title as we are all different. The article drew in a lot of non-NET people who were attracted by the original title. It did spread a little bit of awareness but I guess the dozens […]
We’ve all heard the age-old question about the chicken and the egg? Scientists claimed to have ‘cracked’ the riddle of whether the chicken or the egg came first. The answer, they say, is the chicken. Researchers found that the formation of egg shells relies on a protein found only in a chicken’s ovaries. Therefore, an […]
What happened to me? Since I was diagnosed in 2010, I’ve always known about a fibrosis issue in my retroperitoneal area. It was identified on the very first CT scan which triggered my diagnosis. Here’s how the radiologist described it – “There is a rind of abnormal tissue surrounding the aorta extending distally from below […]
