14th July 2026 – Ronny Allan hits 3 million blog views!

Today, 14th July 2026, I can confirm the 3 million views milestone has been reached.

MASSIVE THANKS to you guys for reading and sharing.

When I first set up this blog in April 2014, it was just to help spread awareness (….and collect a few pennies) whilst I was walking the 84 miles of Hadrian’s Wall with my wife Chris. I never thought for one minute I would reach a thousand hits let alone 10,000 or 100,000 views. When I reached 1 million, I was totally flabbergasted. When I reached 2 million, I was a bit proud.

I just reached 3 million and it’s confused me slightly as I don’t know what next other than keep going and hope for the best. Will I aim for 4 million? I will leave that up to you, my readers. But it would need to be done quicker than previous millions. Thus the reticence.

THANK YOU!

My key aims are international-level awareness, advocacy, campaigning, and support for all Neuroendocrine Cancer patients via all my social media accounts. I’m not your regular Neuroendocrine Cancer advocate because I do things differently rather than follow the crowd. I’m certain that fact has played a part in getting to this stage. People often ask me how I’ve been able to build up my sites while dealing with a stage IV cancer diagnosis – it’s a tricky question because I’m not sure what happened! I just put my head down and attacked the task in my usual tenacious way – so I guess that’s part of my subconscious inbuilt strategy.

The blog underpins most of my social media outlets

My blog is central to my activities and through this medium and some others, I’ve really invented my own brand of Neuroendocrine Cancer awareness. I pride myself on being an international and independent writer which allows me the freedom of movement I need. That freedom of movement and independence permeates through to my private group, my Facebook pages and all other social media outlets.

So far, I’ve managed to win THREE international awards breaking through into new areas for awareness. It’s difficult for a Brit to win in what is essentially a US awards programme.

In 2016, I won the WEGO Health Best in Show Community plus a finalist in another category (blog),

In 2017, I made it to 3 finals including Best Blog.

In 2028, I finally won the Best in Show Blog in 2018.

I took a break from entering these words in 2019/2020

In 2021 I was in 2 finals and won the Lifetime Achievement award.

I have declined to enter since then. There was an element of ‘let someone else in’ but I could see there were some very strong candidates in there and it is hard work winning!!

You can read my WEGO history here.

Other Advocate Activities

I don’t just write a blog! I’ve also spoken at many events and to pharma/healthcare-only audiences including Ipsen Global Paris, Ipsen UK, Ipsen Germany, Ono Pharma UK, Royal Marsden Hospital, Eye for Pharma London 2018, EUHIC Berlin 2018, Society and College of Radiographers. I’ve also presented to a few UK and overseas patient groups, including the UK, Scotland, Wales, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Middle East. You can see some of those talks here. There are so many other sources of routes into my blog and I’m grateful to the many patient advocate organisations, patient advocates, the healthcare community in general, and many, many, more. If you’re reading this, thank you so much.

I’m also a contributor to Cure Magazine although only two articles published to date (soooooo busy!) – but read those here. I might reduce my blog in due course and post more for these guys.

Credit: Ipsen Group (https://www.ipsen.com/patients/)

Check out my online presentations

Other invitations include (but not limited to) helping to create and featured in Ipsen‘s patient support website Living with NETs, a photo shoot for a Macmillan Cancer internet campaign (click here), a photo and video shoot for Ipsen as a member of the European Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) (click here). I’ve also been featured and/or mentioned in numerous other locations – read my blog site home page to read more.

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Everything I do is about patients and my site is accredited as “Patients Included”. That means everything must have patient input.

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