Neuroendocrine Cancer: Those who know, know!

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Over the years of my advocating, I’ve tried to explain Neuroendocrine Cancer to many people outside the community.  Some ‘get it’ but many don’t.  Most understand ‘Cancer’, but they have real difficulty understanding ‘Neuroendocrine‘.  Despite how hard I try, I can see that some of them just don’t get it!  I told someone I had a primary in the small intestine once, they said “oh you have bowel cancer then?” – NO! 

One of the challenges of explaining Neuroendocrine Cancer is the sheer complexity and spectrum of types. It’s a heterogeneous grouping of cancers ranging from some quite indolent versions to very aggressive versions similar to many dangerous adenocarcinomas.  Unlike many of the more understood cancers, Neuroendocrine Cancer can literally appear anywhere in the body, adding to an already complex description.  In addition, this creates a disadvantage of awareness opportunities because of the use of incorrect cancer types – clearly many doctors and media organisations who are focused on the anatomy don’t ‘get it’ either!

Add in the symptoms caused by Neuroendocrine Tumours and their associated ‘Syndromes‘ and ‘Hormones‘, the external audience is now falling asleep or lost interest. Trying to explain why these diseases cannot be diagnosed earlier is also very complex.  “How can it be so difficult” many of them ask.

If you have managed to keep their interest and get onto the subject of living with the disease, it gets even more mind-blowing.  Non-stop surveillance, lifetime surveillance, permanent side effects of treatment. “No way” many of them remark.  The problem is that many people have a really simple outlook on cancer; something goes wrong, you get diagnosed, you get treated, and you either die or live.  Simple, isn’t it?

One Oncology nurse who got cancer wrote an outstanding blog on her sudden realisation of what it was like to be a cancer patient.  Click here to read it. 

One group that normally ‘gets it’ is those who have currently got it, i.e. Neuroendocrine Cancer patients and their close families and supporters.  They may not ‘get it’ before someone is diagnosed and they may still not ‘get it’ once someone is diagnosed, but they eventually will ‘get it’. I have many people who ‘get it’ in my private group and on my main campaign sites.

Despite the difficulties, I’ll continue talking to those who have not yet ‘got it’ hoping to make them understand the disease.  I also intend to continue to help with the undiagnosed (curiously some of these guys probably do ‘get it’ but just not yet formally ‘got it’).  I also want to help those at and beyond diagnosis who despite having it, don’t yet quite ‘get it’.

Those who know, know

You may also be interested in:

50 Shades of Neuroendocrine Cancer – click here
Beware but be aware – click here
The Perfect Storm of Neuroendocrine Cancer – click here
The Syndromes of Neuroendocrine Cancer – click here
The Witch’s Brew of Neuroendocrine Cancer – click here
The Slowness and Sneakiness of Neuroendocrine Cancer – click here

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