Somatostatin analogues are medicines that stop your body from making too many hormones. Some neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) make large amounts of hormones. This can cause symptoms. Somatostatin ...

PRRT is a possible treatment for some NETs that start in the pancreas or the digestive system. It is not a treatment for NECs. Radioisotope therapy uses radioactive medicines to treat some cancer ...

Neuroendocrine cancers are a group of cancers that start in the neuroendocrine system. Doctors might also call them neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs). But the terms mean the same thing. There are 2 key ...

Radioactive scans can help your doctors diagnose some types of neuroendocrine tumour (NET). You have an injection of a low dose radioactive substance, which can show up on a scan. Radioactive scans ...

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Cancer Research UK is the largest cancer research organisation in the world outside the USA. We fund research on all aspects of cancer from its causes to prevention and treatment. We are committed to ...

Metastatic bowel cancer is cancer that has spread from the back passage (rectum) or large intestines (colon) to other parts of the body, such as the liver. Sometimes cancer has spread when it is first ...

Bowel cancer screening can support cancer prevention and drive earlier diagnosis. Be Clear on Cancer (BCOC) campaigns were carried out to drive bowel screening uptake in England and Wales to support ...

Early phase clinical trials are carried out to find out how safe and how effective an intervention is. Early phase clinical trials often use new and experimental therapies which may offer patients ...

When a close friend or relative dies, you go through a normal process called grieving. We grieve after any sort of loss in our lives. But it is most powerful when someone we love dies. Grieving is not ...

Lots of people talk about checking themselves to try and spot cancer early. It’s good to be aware of what your body is normally like, so it’s easier to notice if anything changes. Checking yourself ...