They found a tumour about the size of a tennis ball on my pancreas… It’s a shame that it takes a diagnosis like this to change the way people live their life.
Being told you have an incurable cancer is a big moment to process… My symptoms were quite acute and they had a very sudden onset. Abdominal pain, cramping, vomiting, sweating
In 2010 when Jamie was only 32 years old, with a 6-month-old baby at home and the world at her feet, she was diagnosed with a mid-gut neuroendocrine tumour (NET).
About a week or so after Zara was born and Bree was at home, she found herself on the shower floor in pain and new she needed to return to the hospital for answers.
My surgery was a success. It went for 10 hours, they had previously predicted it could take up to 15 hours. I was in the ICU for 2 days then I was on ward for nearly 3 weeks. I went back to work on a part time basis after 6 weeks. In hindsight I should have given myself longer to heal.
I was diagnosed with NEC high grade small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma in a duplication cyst of my colon. I was born with a duplicate colon I never knew about and my cancer was found within it.
After testing positive for SDHB the rest of my family, including a large extended family, were tested. 75% of my (extended) family members tested are positive for SDHB, which is around 25 people.
As soon as he woke his words were “they found something else”? He had been on the rounds with Doctor’s for years trying to find out what was wrong with his stomach.
