
Opinion: On World Neuroendocrine Cancer Day, what’s wrong with a bit of Neuroendocrine Cancer awareness?
On World Neuroendocrine Cancer Day, what's wrong with a bit of Neuroendocrine Cancer awareness? Well, there are three main things wrong with Neuroendocrine Cancer awareness:1. The community remains entrenched in 1907 terminology which needs to be brought into 2022. Things have moved on so much but the use of this ancient terminology and what it infers, just keeps us marking time in the last century. It does not do us any favours in awareness terms, nor does it do us any favours in clinical terms. If clinicians, scientific organsiations (including pharma), and patient advocate organisations will not move on, we as patients and advocates need to pull them along with us. We need to do all we can to remove the term "Carcinoid" from our vocabulary ...... and theirs. Read…