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Neuroendocrine Tumors (NETs) | Last Active: Jun 23, 2023 | Replies (38)
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@tomrennie

Do you know how big your tumor was? I am curious to what the tumor size threshold might be to go right to surgery? I am glad you are doing so well.

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pavlina60 | @pavlina60 | Jun 20, 2023

@ Turkey - huge. 20×16×12 cm. It had grown over part of my stomach, vascularized. So I had most of my pancreas removed, spleen, gall bladder and some part of the stomach wall. ( gall bladder removal was to prevent additional surgery on it because Lanreotide damages the gall bladder). And I also have endometrial cancer ( not NET, totally unrelated, but discovered during Fluoro- deoxyglucose PET scan)- so hysterectomy was performed during pNET surgery. Almost 5 mo post surgery I feel well!

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