Somatostatin Analogues Review

** UPDATE – Please note that the closing date for the below was end of May 2018 and we are currently awaiting the outcome. Thank you ** Somatostatin Analogues (the monthly injections for treating most NETs and/or their symptoms) are going under review in...

NPF Patient Representative Attends ENETs

I attended the European Neuroendocrine Tumour Society -ENETS –  Conference last week as a patient representative and  hope it may be interesting to have some feedback. The event  was huge – much bigger than I’d expected –  for...

Sally’s NET story

As I trudged numbly from one unprofitable doctor’s appointment to another throughout 2007/8 I didn’t know that not  pinning down the reason for my increasingly severe bouts of pain and diarrhoea would nearly cost me my life.  Crohn’s disease, coeliac...

Rachael’s NET story

Here is my #NetCancer story so far…. On 29 February 2016 I was told that one thing that no one ever wants to hear, especially at the age of 32. ‘I am very sorry but you have cancer’. I was so shocked I couldn’t even blink to shed a tear. I had...