Neuroendocrine Cancer – If you can see it, you can detect it!
Updated December 2025BackgroundScanning is a key diagnostic support and surveillance tool for any cancer. Even though you have elevated bloods or urine (....or not), a picture of your insides is really like a thousand words.... and each picture has a story behind it. Scanning can be a game changer in the hunt for tumours and although scans do not normally confirm the cancer type and grade, they certainly help with that piece of detective work and are key in the staging of the cancer.When I read stories of people in a difficult diagnosis, I always find myself saying 'a scan might resolve this' and…
Biopsies – tissue is the issue!
First published 19th July 2023. Major update on 6th August 2024 to including key marker and histopathological tissue biomarkers used in Neuroendocrine Neoplasms (NENs). My diagnostic background On 19th July 2010, I had a liver biopsy. This followed some low hemoglobin (Hb) and some weight loss reported to my GP surgery in May, I met with a specialist on 8th July and after sending me straight for a CT scan on the same day, the output from that CT confirmed something was drastically wrong. Clearly CT scans don't diagnose cancer inlcuding grade, so I eventually had to have a liver…
Endoscopy for NETs – taking the camera to the tumour
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on whatsapp WhatsApp Share on email Email An Endoscopy is a procedure where the inside of your body is examined using an instrument called an endoscope. This is a long, thin, flexible tube that has a light source and camera at one end. Images of the inside of your body are relayed to a television screen. Endoscopes can be inserted into the body through a natural opening, such as the mouth and down the throat, or through the bottom. The mouth route is more accurately called a Gastroscopy…