I know that I don’t have all the knowledge or tools in my kit to win the mental game by myself, so my family and I reach out to the amazing, experienced resources that are available at NeuroEndocrine Cancer Australia. It really helps to have someone that can validate how I am feeling or explain the processes and cycles that I will go through.

My days and months have been spending time and money on and in medical appointments, tests and scans, rooms, clinics and medications and listening to profoundly specialised medical jargon, which is not always explained fully and sometimes assumed to be common knowledge,

The hardest thing has been actually finding out what was wrong with me. No-one could tell me for months and the toll it took on me and my family was devastating. The lack of knowledge of NETs amongst the medical fraternity amazed me. Still a long way to go.

The results showed 15 tumours in my liver. Within days I had a biopsy, which confirmed it was a neuroendocrine tumour. I had never heard of this type of cancer prior to being diagnosed.