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Patient Stories

Read more about the experiences of fellow NET patients and also check out our Patient Stories videos on Youtube.

Bert Dorgelo

My role change from working life to a carer was rapid and willingly undertaken even though it was not what I had in mind for our future lives.
View Bert Dorgelo's Story

Sharon Rickard

Although I think I’d been unwell for a while I don’t think I spent as long on the diagnosis path as some others with NETs.
View Sharon Rickard's Story

Jan Tinkler

It's almost two years now since I was given the diagnosis of Neuroendocrine cancer
View Jan Tinkler's Story

Rachel James

I went from being monitored for MEN1 from the age of 12 so was used to blood tests and scans and seeing specialists but routinely rather than rushed or just told to do something without much explanation.
View Rachel James's Story

Kim McLean

When I was 16 years old (1990) I was quite sick and always tired, I was always vomiting. Eventually I was diagnosed with glandular fever, the doctors said it was very unusual to have the vomiting I had so they never looked for it.
View Kim McLean's Story

Resh’s Story

Cancer stole our Mum’s right to see her children get married, to meet her grandchildren and to grow old with her husband.
View Resh’s Story's Story

Lynda Dunstone

Like so many others, it took 2 years from my first scans showing tumours to be diagnosed with NETS. It was long, frustrating and physically and emotionally draining not only on me, but also my family.
View Lynda Dunstone's Story

Wayne Gatley

When my GP rang me a few hours after my scan and told me to come in immediately my life changed for ever.
View Wayne Gatley's Story

Kathy Hatzi

The most helpful thing to me was talking to someone who had been living with NETs for 20 years. Listening to hers and others experiences and tapping into their knowledge was reassuring and comforting.
View Kathy Hatzi's Story

Lyn Balzer

NETS has hugely impacted my life…going from a full and hectic life, of designing objects and exhibiting our art installation works and jewellery, everything had to stop so I could just focus one day at a time.
View Lyn Balzer's Story

Jan Mumford

My diagnosis with a pancreatic neuroendocrine when I was 36 was out of nowhere… More recently my auntie has been diagnosed, and family discussion have identified a distant cousin as well. This has now had a larger impact on not only myself but my larger family, and made us more aware of our health. 
View Jan Mumford's Story

Amanda Stork

For approximately seven years, my health continued to decline and impact on my quality of life, my career goals, my social life and my own self belief. I was diagnosed at age 29, and two days after my diagnosis I found out I was pregnant with my first baby.
View Amanda Stork's Story

Chelle Scully

I had to quit my high powered job as a CPA and Financial Planner as having NETS as well as Diabetes Type 1 made me a lot slower mentally and physically.
View Chelle Scully's Story

Sally Marsden

NETs tipped me upside down, it stopped me in my tracks! Years of getting sicker and sicker, and nobody understanding what was wrong with me.
View Sally Marsden's Story

Amanda Massey

Honestly, pre-NETs now seems like another life for me.  The biggest change is becoming a diabetic as a result of tumours on my pancreas and it therefore being removed.
View Amanda Massey's Story

Grant Mundell

Grant Mundell Being diagnosed with a pNET and MEN1 has had a huge impact on my life and that of my
View Grant Mundell's Story

Catherine Sutton

For years I had felt unwell and not my normal self. I was a confident, happy go-getter who had become tired, anxious and nervous without cause and ultimately developed an extra short fuse.
View Catherine Sutton's Story

Rachel Burnett

NETs has totally changed my life. I was a bit of a gym junkie before and now have had to cancel my membership due to pain and fatigue. This has been the hardest thing to deal with.
View Rachel Burnett's Story

Helen McDonald

It is impossible to explain to you in words how a person can be perfectly healthy one minute, then violently ill barely half an hour later, then admitted to Hospital within two. But that is exactly what happened to me…
View Helen McDonald's Story

Michelle’s Story

Although feeling very disheartened at my future after diagnosis, something changed in the way I approached it as time has gone on. I decided that I was not going to be defined by this condition. It is a small part of me; I am NOT part of it.
View Michelle’s Story's Story
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