I've never smoked so I'm reasonably confident that my own cancer experience is not related to this type of personal lifestyle. I did, however, grow up in a world where smoking was widespread and a generally accepted behaviour.
We now know that smoking causes more than four in five cases of lung cancer. Lung cancer not only has one of the lowest survival rates of all cancers, but is the most common cause of cancer death…
The papers and social media seem to be full of awareness and early diagnosis articles this month. This coincided with world NET Cancer Day on 10 Nov and world Pancreatic Cancer day on 13 Nov. Social media was therefore buzzing with messages from organisations supporting and advocating for both of these cancer types. These issues also made it to the conventional media outlets of newspapers, radio and television. Last…
what I mainly remember was my wife Chris holding my hand which gave me a great deal of much needed comfort and security
It was 10th November 2010 just after midnight. I gradually woke up from the anaesthetic after a marathon 9 hour surgery – the first of what was to be several visits to an operating theatre. I remember it being dark and I also remember feeling constrained by the dozen or so ‘connections’ to my…
Sometimes when I’m searching for medical information, I’m presented with a ‘pick-list’ of cancers which tend to be anatomy based and I find it infuriating when I cannot find my own cancer on the list. Some respectable organisations are just not as up to date as they should be! One of the key facets of NET Cancer is that it is not tied into a particular part of the human anatomy. Ignorance of…
