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Stopping Octreotide???
My liver enzymes are very elevated Not sure if it is from my Bland Embolization I had done in January Or from my 9 rounds...
Last active: Nov 11, 2024
Pain post Octreotide injections
Hi, My mom has recently been diagnosed with NET Grade 1 and the doctor has suggested her Octreotide 30mg. She has taken a couple of...
Last active: Sep 5, 2023
Rash/Hives with Octreotide injection
My husband has taken the Octreotide injection now for about 2.5 years. This past summer he started breaking into a rash/hives on the face &...
Last active: Jan 15, 2024
Octreotide Injections - Skipping One or More?
Following completion of PRRT treatment, my wife has been receiving monthly octreotide (Sandostatin LAR) injections.She will be out - of -town when the next injection...
Last active: Nov 27, 2023
Clay colored bowels & diarrhea side effects with Octreotide
Anyone have the above side effects? I was reading that the shot could effect your liver enzymes? I have non-functioning (no symptoms) metastatic tumors in...
Last active: Jan 27 2:29pm
Liver function (birirubin, globulin, glucose, iron) and Octreotide
Started Octreotide shot in Dec. Labs show Bilirubin going from .7 to 1.1 to 1.5 in three months, iron is 25 and % saturation is...
Last active: Mar 25 8:47pm
NETS Mesentery, Small Bowel Resection, Lanreotide, Octreotide, Story
Maybe my story helps somebody. I've had well differentiated Nets for a while now. A review early last year of a 2019 CT confirmed mesenteric...
Last active: Jul 27, 2024
Tumor w/ minor grow with no Octreotide & larger growth w/ the shot
I was diagnosed with metastatic neuroendocrine cancer in the liver 4cm x 3.1 cm in Sept. Grade 2, non-functioning, well differentiated KCI 6-8%. My MRI...
Last active: May 17 6:04pm
Need a NET doctor
Hi! Hope all are well! I am moving to Winston Salem NC and need to find a NET team to continue my 28day octreotide injections...
Last active: Sep 22 8:51am
I saw the surgeon. More confused than ever.
Hi everyone. After a very long month, I finally saw a surgeon for my 8mm si NETS. I am symptomatic. I was totally expecting to...
Last active: Sep 10 8:29am
Life expectancy with NETs and lifetyle as it progresses
What is my life expectancy as a result of my NET? Diagnosed 3 years ago with Grade 1, Stage 4 NETs. Primary tumor is probably...
Last active: Jun 1, 2023
Biopsy showed DIPNECH
I received the results of a lung biopsy last week & it showed DIPNECH. I see an oncologist next week to discuss treatment options. Pulmonologist...
Last active: Sep 23 10:46am
NET and neuropathy
20 months after NET found in small intestine and already spread to liver. I have had resection, monthly octreotide injections, and Lutathera. The cancer seemed...
Last active: Jul 31 12:33pm
NET's Metastasis to Brain
1. Net's found in 2017 - pancreas / small intestine co- primaries 2. Lanreotide until 2023 when progression was identified including bone metastasis. 3. 4...
Last active: 11 hours ago
Short acting Ocreotide
If anyone has used the short acting Ocreotide for there treatment can you please share with me how it is dosed How is the injection...
Last active: Sep 2, 2024
Do NET tumors show up in basic blood work?
Besides specialized nuclear testing scans, do any elevated blood tests indicate a possible NET tumor besides the 24 hour urine test with creatine? Is it...
Last active: Jan 12, 2022
Anyone have side effects after Lanreotide injection?
I have been doing injection for a year now but as of a few months ago after the injection I am feeling very sluggish, and...
Last active: Mar 10 2:32pm
Neuroendocrine of pancreas
My sister has Grade 3 pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor with liver nodules. She was initially treated with CapTem, but it didn’t work, so the doctor switched...
Last active: 6 days ago
CGA (Chromogranin) results from different labs
Does anyone know how much CGA results can vary from lab to lab. Following are the last four CGA results for my wife: 75 (11/16...
Last active: Jan 20, 2018
Anyone had plexus nerve block for cancer pain?
My mom is 81 and she was just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer stage IV that has metastasized to her liver. Her oncologist has suggested that...
Support Group: Pancreatic Cancer
Last active: Dec 29, 2024