NET Cancer Day – Ronny Allan – Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer

02Dec 2016 by Ronny Allan 3 Comments

NETwork with Ronny © – Newsletter November 2016

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[caption id="attachment_8478" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Please share me![/caption] Hi, welcome to my first newsletter, a pilot for a monthly summary of NET news, views and ICYMI (in case you missed it!). What a month November has been - we had NET Cancer Day build up and I've been working hard to put on a good show for the 2016 WEGO Health Activist Awards (results expected around 6/7 Dec) whilst at the same time maintain my other campaigning activity across a wide range of social media platforms. Due to increased activity, I recorded the second highest monthly viewing figures ever - over 13,000 hits on my blog site in one month (and even more on Facebook). Not bad for a little backstreet disease - but my intention is to take it to the high…

26Oct 2016 by Ronny Allan 7 Comments

Living with NETs – a patients included award winning site

Awareness, Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer, Patient Advocacy, Survivorship

It's no secret that I and other patients (see picture below) have been helping Ipsen Group and their website consultants (Kanga Health) with a new site designed to support and help all Neuroendocrine Tumour patients. It was subsequently launched on NET Cancer Day 2016 and is very aptly named 'Living with NETs'. Very pleased to see all this hard work recognised at the 2018 Eye for Pharma awards for the Most Valuable Patient Initiative. And, this is great awareness for Neuroendocrine Cancer at a major pharma event. I'm also delighted to be speaking alongside Ipsen as the EyeforPharma Patients Summit event in London on Oct 16th 2018. I'm quite excited about this new initiative from Ipsen Group (the manufacturers of Somatuline (Lanreotide)) and not only because I feature on the site…

18Sep 2015 by Ronny Allan 32 Comments

Opinion: Neuroendocrine Cancer Awareness – let’s move into the 21st century

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Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on whatsapp WhatsApp Share on email Email OPINIONThe build up to so called NET Cancer Day has begun and I can hear hoofbeats becoming louder every day. Is it a horse, is it a zebra etc etc. However, is this aged equine medical adage still applicable as an awareness tool for Neuroendocrine Cancer or should we be looking for something which is more impactful, up to date, more compelling, more likely be taken seriously and attract new audiences? p.s. even our day has a ridiculous name - "NET Cancer" decodes to "Neuroendocrine Tumour Cancer" which is quite ludicrous not only because of the grammar but also because it precludes a whole bunch of people from the Neuroendocrine…

10Nov 2014 by Ronny Allan 2 Comments

Every Day is World NET Day!

Awareness, Inspiration, Patient Advocacy, Survivorship

Opinion:In 2014, I experienced (so called) NET Cancer Day (10 Nov) on a major scale for the first time since its inception. Prior to that, it didn't really do that much for me. Spookily, I even woke up on 10 Nov 2010 after a major 9-hour surgery. Read about this here - I even woke up on November 10th after major surgery. You'll note the title of this post is "World NET Day" and that is because "NET Cancer Day" is not good awareness - besides the terrible grammar, there is no such term as "Neuroendocrine Tumour Cancer". The build-up to these events normally doesn't start in earnest until around 3 months prior to 10 Nov. On or around this day, people meet up, patient conferences and support meetings are held,…