When Tony Blair swept to power in 1997, he said: “Ask me my three main priorities for government and I tell you education, education, and education”. His approach of repeated word emphasis has been copied and recycled by many others replacing the words with something to suit their own message. I’m now guilty of similar plagiarism!
NET Cancer is rare and as a consequence has a small community of sufferers and specialists. It does not get the same levels of publicity, funding and research that the bigger patient population and more common cancers receive. It therefore needs ‘team work’ to send a bigger and more powerful awareness message. Thus why the World NET Community formed in Berlin in March 2010. This is a group of NET cancer patient organisations from countries as far-flung as North America, Australia/Far East and Europe. Their common aim is to raise awareness of NET cancers. Efforts are focussed around World NET Cancer Awareness Day, which is held on 10th November. Check out this link for more info: http://www.netcancerday.org
10th November
One of the key aims of my blog is to spread awareness of NET Cancer and I’m very pleased to be part of the ‘worldwide team’ doing my bit to help. I started blogging in Apr this year mainly to support a sponsored walk but it has turned into something more permanent. I start to twitch if I haven’t blogged for more than a week :-) I’m now fast approaching my first 10,000 hits which is beyond all my expectations. My blog statistics package also lets me know my posts have been read in 56 countries indicating NET Cancer is truly an international disease. Check out the long list below to see how your country is doing!
I’m also helping to spread awareness through my associations with PLANETS Charity: http://www.planetscharity.org and NET Patient Foundation: http://www.netpatientfoundation.org In fact, I’ll be representing the latter at the NET Patient Foundation event on Tuesday 4th November in the UK Parliament. This event aims to increase awareness amongst parliamentarians about NET cancers and the challenges to timely diagnoses – in short we are taking our fight for greater awareness directly to the heart of the UK government!
I’m also a ‘tweeter’ which is such a fantastic tool for spreading awareness if used properly. I run my own personal site and also administer the PLANETS Charity account. If you want to follow both of these accounts please link here:
https://twitter.com/RonnyAllan1
https://twitter.com/PLANETSCHARITY
Please also follow my colleagues in NET Patient Foundation: https://twitter.com/netpatientfound
If you want to help spread awareness of Neuroendocrine Cancer, please follow my blog and share across your own social media systems. If you want to receive an email when a new post is published, click on the follow button (this is a system generated message and your email will not be used by me for any other purpose). In addition to WordPress (the blog tool), I also post on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and StumbleUpon.
Finally, please look at the list of blog hits by country:
Ronny
| Country | Views |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom |
5,103 |
 United States |
2,595 |
 Canada |
290 |
 Australia |
222 |
 Netherlands |
136 |
 Spain |
66 |
 Ireland |
49 |
 United Arab Emirates |
43 |
 Italy |
39 |
 Russian Federation |
27 |
 France |
20 |
 Sweden |
20 |
 Portugal |
18 |
 Belgium |
17 |
 South Africa |
16 |
 New Zealand |
14 |
 Switzerland |
14 |
 India |
14 |
 Turkey |
12 |
 Philippines |
11 |
 Norway |
11 |
 Denmark |
11 |
 Kuwait |
10 |
 Hong Kong |
10 |
 Belize |
9 |
 Germany |
9 |
 Barbados |
9 |
 Qatar |
7 |
 Austria |
6 |
 Czech Republic |
5 |
 Singapore |
5 |
 Japan |
4 |
 Bahrain |
4 |
 Brazil |
4 |
 Malaysia |
4 |
 Lebanon |
3 |
 Cyprus |
3 |
 Croatia |
2 |
 Romania |
2 |
 Republic of Korea |
2 |
 Israel |
2 |
 Finland |
1 |
 Taiwan |
1 |
 Viet Nam |
1 |
 Greece |
1 |
 Luxembourg |
1 |
 Algeria |
1 |
 Nepal |
1 |
 Hungary |
1 |
 Isle of Man |
1 |
 Mexico |
1 |
 Kazakhstan |
1 |
 Colombia |
1 |
 Nigeria |
1 |
 Vanuatu |
1 |
 Kenya |
1 |
