Cathy’s symptoms were fatigue, diarrhoea and anxiety.
Do you know the symptoms of neuroendocrine cancer?
There’s such little awareness about this cancer, even among medical professionals. I’ve had GPs say to me, “I’ve never seen a neuroendocrine cancer patient in my life.” And I tell them, “You probably have — you just didn’t diagnose them.”
In that moment, everything just crumbled. One minute, I was thinking I’d be home in a day or two. The next, I was being told I had stage-four, inoperable cancer.
I encourage everyone to share their story—on the NeuroEndocrine Cancer Australia website and within their own communities—so that NETs is recognised and diagnosed earlier. I also encourage fundraising for NeuroEndocrine Cancer Australia if possible.
I have worked in healthcare my entire life I had never heard of NETs until my diagnosis and I’m pretty sure none of the doctors I had seen in the lead up to diagnosis knew about it either.
