What is Satoreotide? It’s an agonist treatment. i.e. a ‘next generation’ radiologand for Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) or more specifically the radiopharmaceutical that binds to both activated and unactivated somatostatin receptors which are upregulated on these tumours. There is far higher binding via this mechanism than standard octreotate. The technical name of the radiopharmaceutical […]
On my website RonnyAllan.NET, September was an interesting month because I had pushed out some blogs before I went on a planned overseas holiday from 6th – 25th Sep and then pushed out some more on return. This had the effect of producing higher figures than August. Normally holidays mean lower figures. I’m thankful to […]
I don’t tend to share some very personal stuff, but this is on the boundary of that rule and there are some important messages to be teased out. For those who follow my blog in detail, you may remember the post entitled “Neuroendocrine Cancer – Signs, Suspicions, Symptoms, Syndromes, Side-Effects, Secondary Illnesses, Comorbidities, and Coincidences” […]
There has been controversy about the utility of Chromogranin A for many years now. Specialists have been critical about its use but to be fair even those less critical still confirm that alone it would not be trusted to formally diagnose Neuroendocrine Cancer. That said, it was still controversial when certain US guidelines were updated […]
One of the many observations I make in my private Neuroendocrine Cancer Facebook group is the misunderstandings caused by the use of non-standard terminology combined with a lack of understanding of what is up to date or not. And I don’t always mean a misunderstanding by patients. If I am to believe doctors uttered some […]
NET Cancer Blog has just recorded 100,000 blog views. I’m extremely excited to have reached this major milestone. However, I’m also really grateful to my followers on this blog site, on Facebook, on Pinterest, on Google+ and on twitter for supporting me through thick and thin. Your engagement with my blog whether a simple ‘like’, a share, a comment, a pin, a tweet, a retweet, an email or via a private message; is not only extremely motivating but also very humbling.
Congrats!!! I didn’t realize that you had 2 blogs. 🙂 Why do you have 2? 🙂
Only 1 – send link to the other!
nevermind….didn’t realize it was your FB page! LOL
You had me in panic mode there 😲
wonderful information, all so true