September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month!  The newspapers and social media have been featuring many childhood cancer articles. It's known that NENs do occur in childhood, particularly those associated with familial/hereditary syndromes including (but not limited to), Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN), hereditary Pheochromoctyoma/Paraganglioma (PPGL), familial medullary thyroid carcinoma (FMTC); Von-Hippel Lindau (VHL) syndrome.  But I also see young people diagnosed with sporadic (not hereditary) appendiceal Neuroendocrine Tumours (NET), most often incidentially found following appendicitis investigations.  There are very rare instances of sporadic findings in regular NENs of varying primary types (including Neuroendocrine Carcinomas (NEC)).I dedicate this post to Elizabeth Rooney…