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14 Dec 2025

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Ronny Allan’s ‘PoNETry’ © – An Ode to Invisible Illness

Inspiration, Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer, Patient Advocacy, SurvivorshipAdvanced neuroendocrine cancer, Carcinoid syndrome, Fatigue, Invisible illness, Metastatic Neuroendocrine Cancer, NET syndromes, Neuroendocrine, Neuroendocrine tumour (NET)

Ronny Allan's 'PoNETry' © series can be shared with poetry credit to: RonnyAllan.NET Thanks for reading Ronny I also have one about Lanreotide (or "butt darts" in general) - click here Click here and answer all questions to join my private Facebook group Thanks for reading. Ronny Blog Facebook. Like this page please. Personal Facebook. Like this page please. Awareness Facebook Like this page please. Follow me on X (formerly twitter) Check out my online presentations Check out my WEGO Health Awards Check out my Glossary of Terms - click here Please Share this post for Neuroendocrine Cancer awareness and to…

22 Sep 2024

By Ronny Allan

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Don’t be underactive with your Thyroid surveillance

Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer, Patient Advocacy, Survivorship, TreatmentConstipation, Depression, Dry skin, Fatigue, Goitre, Graves’ disease, Hashimoto's disease, Heat intolerance, Hormones, Hyperthryroidism, Hypothyroidism, Lanreotide, Levothyroxine, NET syndromes, Neuroendocrine, Neuroendocrine cancer, Neuroendocrine tumour (NET), Octreotide, Palpitation, Pituitary gland, Quality of LIfe (QoL), Radioactive iodine, Somatostatin analogues, Sweating, Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), Thyroiditis, Thyroxine (T4), Triiodothyronine (T3)

From other posts, you'll be aware of the thyroid lesion (approx. 17 x 19mm) which I've been tracking since 2013. The surveillance included routine thyroid blood tests, mainly TSH, T3 and 4. I was out of range in TSH (elevated) but the T4 was at the lower end of the normal range. On 20 March 2018, following an Endocrine appointment, I was put on a trial dose of 50mcg of Levothyroxine to counter the downwards trend in results indicating hypothyroidism, possibly due to the lesion. Levothyroxine is a thyroid hormone (thyroxine) replacement. One month after taking these drugs, my thyroid…

23 May 2024

By Ronny Allan

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Neuroendocrine Cancer Nutrition Series Article 1 – Vitamin and Mineral Challenges

Diet and NutritionAnorexia, Carcinoid syndrome, Fat soluble vitamins, Fatigue, Malabsorption, Mineral, Neuroendocrine, Neuroendocrine cancer, Neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC), Nutrition, Vitamin A, Vitamin ADEK, Vitamin B complex, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B12, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B7, Vitamin B9, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Water soluble vitamins

Always speak to your specialist before taking vitamin and mineral supplements. Featuring Tara Whyand Vitamin deficiency is common in the general population so your issue may not be related to NET. But read on to learn the risks for NET patients. Despite learning early on in my journey that nutrition was going to be a challenge, I sensed the initial focus of my treatment was on getting rid of as much tumour bulk as possible and then controlling (stabilising) the disease through monitoring and surveillance. Clearly I'm happy about that! However, it eventually became clear that the impact of this…

08 Aug 2021

By Ronny Allan

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Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) – The NET Effect

Diet and Nutrition, Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer, Patient Advocacy, Survivorship, The NET Effect SeriesCancer related fatigue, Depression, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Fatigue, Hypothyroidism, Invisible illness, Malabsorption, NET syndromes, Nutrition, Quality of LIfe (QoL)

In my patient support group of almost 10,000+, fatigue is very commonly discussed, and it certainly gets bags of empathy from the readers. I remember being really tired in the first few years after my diagnosis and in the years preceding it. As I was very focused on my work in those days, I was putting it down to the rigours of my working practices, commuting, overnighting, and working far too many hours in a day. In 2010, my diagnosis was triggered by symptoms of iron deficiency anaemia which was almost certainly connected to my cancer and feelings of fatigue for…

24 Oct 2017

By Ronny Allan

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Round up of NANETS 2017 – Let’s talk about NETs #NANETS2017

Awareness, Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer, Patient Advocacy, Survivorship, TreatmentAnxiety, Appendiceal NET, Bronchial NET, Cabozantinib, Diarrhea, Fatigue, Ga68 PET/CT, Lu-177, Lutathera, Lymph nodes, NETTER-1, North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (NANETS), PRRT, Quality of LIfe (QoL), Somatostatin analogues, Somatostatin receptors (SSTR), SSTR-PET

NANETS (North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society) is one of the biggest NET conferences, bringing together NET Specialists from around the world to discuss state-of-the-art treatment modalities, new therapies, and ongoing controversies in the field of Neuroendocrine Neoplasms (Tumors and Carcinomas). This is fairly complex stuff but much of it will be familiar to many. I’ve filtered out several outputs from the conference which I think are both relevant and topical to patients. The list is below allowing you to easily peruse and read further via linkages if you need to read more. Remember, some of these are extracts so do not…

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