January 2021 - Ronny Allan - Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer

31Jan 2021 by Ronny Allan 3 Comments

Ronny Allan Newsletter – 1st February 2021

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on whatsapp WhatsApp Share on email Email Overview [caption id="attachment_21789" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Honestly, there is a smile under that mask![/caption] 2021 is now underway and January has been an interesting month. The highs are the approval of more vaccines and I had the first of my own vaccinations on 31st January - click here to see the announcement on my Facebook page. The lows are slightly depressing growth figures on my biggest Facebook public page and less than normal blog figures for the month of January. I'll need to work on that in February and with your help, I can catch up. I'm putting it down to COVID-19 malaise! January update follows The newsletter is now divided…

17Jan 2021 by Ronny Allan No Comments

Lanreotide and Keytruda – the PLANET study (NCT03043664)

Clinical Trials, Patient Advocacy

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on whatsapp WhatsApp Share on email Email Headline: Roughly 40% of patients with advanced, progressive gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs) treated with pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in combination with lanreotide (Somulatine Depot) achieved stable disease, according to results from the phase 1b/2 PLANET clinical trial presented during the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium.I've written about Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) before in my general immunotherapy coverage - click here. I did note they weren't really having much luck with Neuroendocrine Neoplasms although I do see some success (.... but not enough) in poorly differentiated carcinomas. Well differentiated NETs remain an immunological desert. However, this poster abstract from ASCO GI conference caught my eye.“Pembrolizumab has antitumor activity in a…

11Jan 2021 by Ronny Allan No Comments

Currently trending on RonnyAllan.NET

Patient Advocacy

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on whatsapp WhatsApp Share on email Email I realise some of you are busy but if you wanted a quick catch up and summary of what's currently relevant on my site, you can bookmark this article and refer to it time and time again. It will automatically update the top 10 list below which are the most read posts in the previous 48 hours on my site. These views will have come from various sources of reading including my Facebook pages, Twitter, Pinterest, Wordpress, newsletters and in my private group. I hope many of you will find this new tool useful. Thanks as usual for your phenomenal support. Ronny My Facebook page is click here Click…

04Jan 2021 by Ronny Allan No Comments

The Invisibility of Rectal NETs – do the math

Patient Advocacy

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on whatsapp WhatsApp Share on email Email Do the math not the myth An addition to my mountain of evidence against the so called rarity of Neuroendocrine Neoplasms, a new study from US indicates that many NETs are hidden among colorectal cancer cases in cancer registries. The study reported extraordinary figures of NET cases found when analysing the data. For years, doctors have been warning about the increasing incidence of colorectal cancer amongst younger people. For that reason, the American Cancer Society recommended people to start screening at a younger age (45 years instead of 50 years) in 2018. This would affect 22 million Americans who now are recommended screening. Colorectal covers the large intestine including the sigmoid…