The Zebra Diagnosis: Neuroendocrine Tumor Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe neuroendocrine tumours, the rare growths once called carcinoids that can start in the bowel, pancreas, lung, stomach, appendix and beyond. Some were found by accident, after an appendix operation, a kidney stone scan, a colonoscopy a sister insisted on, a heartburn scope or a cesarean delivery. Others took years: a receptionist who kept fainting from low blood sugar, a cough that never answered to an inhaler, ulcers three times in four years, a face that flushed at an insurance desk every few days. Writers include a bank manager in Bengaluru, a truck driver in Monterrey, a calligraphy teacher in Osaka, a pastry chef relearning to eat, a market vendor in Quezon City, a fifteen-year-old goalkeeper's mother and a man who started a support group in his garage. They write from Lagos and Algiers to Christchurch and Calgary. The book covers monthly injections, tablets with mouth sores and sore feet, radioactive PRRT, liver embolization, a Whipple operation, a liver transplant list, carcinoid heart disease, MEN1 in the family, a clinical trial, costs counted in rupees, Ramadan and travel. Many live with stable scans for years, one for twenty. Others do not: a twenty-six-year-old has a fast-growing carcinoma, one woman's cancer reached her bones, and a seventy-eight-year-old chose comfort over more treatment.

Who it's for

For anyone newly told they have a neuroendocrine tumour or still searching for an explanation of flushing, diarrhoea or low blood sugar, and for the partners and parents who come to the scans.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 237 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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