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Cancer: Managing Symptoms | Last Active: Sep 24 10:31am | Replies (447)
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@merpreb

Teresa, this is where I got it from: https://health.usnews.com/health-news/managing-your-healthcare/cancer/articles/2011/08/09/cancer-and-me
She has written books: Try this one Living Time: Faith and Facts to Transform Your Cancer Journey. I'm going to order it too. How are you doing?

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Teresa, Volunteer Mentor | @hopeful33250 | Dec 10, 2018

@merpreb Merry,

Thanks for asking, I'm doing OK, right now. I need to have an upper endoscopy at the beginning of the year to check to see that there are more NETs. The previous ones have all been in the duodenal bulb.

As NETs are very small cells that are not picked up during traditional x-rays, CT scans and/or MRIs, I also need to schedule a 68Ga DOTATATE Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to make sure there has been no metastasis as I do have a liver lesion which appears to be of no big issue right now, bone pain, but I also have a lot of slow growing pancreatic cysts. The slow growth is typical of NETs.

There are always concerns when faced with any type of cancer. My goal is to live life as fully as possible and help some others along the way.

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