article_snippet: a form of cancer known as neuroendocrine tumours.
article_snippet: a form of cancer known as neuroendocrine tumours can be found elsewhere in the body that produces hormones, mainly the intestines, the pancreas and the appendix - 10 to 20 per cent occur in the lungs.
article_snippet: Every year, 3,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour. '
article_snippet: Wherever a neuro-endocrine tumour develops, a neuro-endocrine tumour can begin to produce hormones - and 30 per cent do so, resulting in a range of symptoms.
article_snippet: But these vague symptoms can make a neuroendocrine tumour more difficult to diagnose and, often, these vague symptoms are only picked up by chance, says Catherine Bouvier of the Net Patient Foundation. '
article_snippet: However, not every patient with a neuroendocrine tumour gets seen by a specialist in one of more centres of excellence for treating this than anywhere in Europe,' not every patient with a neuroendocrine tumour adds.
article_snippet: Lisa is very angry that neuroendocrine cancer is portrayed as almost 'harmless' and that while specialists say anyone with an endocrine tumour should be followed up, Lisa was not - Lisa has also been in touch with others like Lisa who have not been followed up, either.
article_snippet: No one can tell me what the future holds, but I know this - if you have a neuroendocrine cancer, make sure you get followed up. '