Neuroendocrine Cancer Awareness

  • Passive patient or active advocate?

    I’ve been so busy with house, family and cancer campaigning activities but still found time to continue my research into Neuroendocrine Cancer.  Why do I do this?  Whilst I have a great medical team, I’d also like to be my own advocate and this means understanding what medical people tell me! Moreover, I don’t want to be a passive patient, I want to be an active advocate for my own health.  I found this…

  • If your Doctors don’t suspect it, they won’t detect it

    One of the most discussed and debated Neuroendocrine Cancer issues is late diagnosis. Cyberspace is full of disturbing stories on various web sites, Facebook chat sites and charity/support group forum sites.

    Neuroendocrine Cancer is also known as Neuroendocrine Tumours, or NET for short. It’s also frequently referred to as ‘Carcinoid’ but technically this is just a type of Neuroendocrine Tumour (the most common…