Sincer 2015, my message has not changed.  My message continues to be justified because since then, many important voices in the NEN community have repeated it!  However, there has been, and still remains, some instransigence, although some of that has now buckled in the face of the recent US SEER statistics.

However, the buckling needs to spread and expand.  Unfortuantely, some elements of the NEN communmity remain entrenched in old thinking, in flawed thinking. I can only describe them as negative disruptors, clinging on to this old thinking. It seems like they refuse to change their mind or plan to change, even when new data from around the world and important voices should persuade them otherwise. Some seem to have really dug their ‘hooves’ in.  I firmly believe their stubborn and pig-headed approach continues to harm the efficacy of awareness for NENs.