article_snippet: It is far less aggressive than many other cancers and even people with an advanced form can live for decades -
article_snippet: The problem is that, aside from surgery, there is no cure for this cancer - as it is a slow-growing form of the disease, it does not respond to conventional chemotherapy, which targets cells with a rapid turnover.
article_snippet: But there are drugs that can stop another tumour getting bigger, and nuclear medicine treatments, using radioactivity to target receptors on the tumour cells.
article_snippet: It might be a slow growing, easy-to-treat cancer for most people - but not for all.'