Surgery – the gift that keeps on giving
I first wrote this article in December 2014. My thoughts went back to my first surgery in 2010 when I was discharged 4 weeks before Christmas.I had been diagnosed with metastatic Neuroendocrine Cancer in July 2010 having been told it was incurable. However, with 'debulking' surgery, my Oncologist said my prognosis could be significantly improved. I now know from my own research that Neuroendocrine Tumours are one of a small number of cancers for which surgical debulking can confer some survival advantage. Another term used at the time was 'cytoreductive' surgery which means 'to control symptoms and improve survival by…
