Neuroendocrine cancers are a group of cancers that start in the neuroendocrine system. Doctors might also call them neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs). But the terms mean the same thing. There are 2 key ...

Radioactive scans can help your doctors diagnose some types of neuroendocrine tumour (NET). You have an injection of a low dose radioactive substance, which can show up on a scan. Radioactive scans ...

Sign up to one of our Shine Night Walk events by 28 February 2025 to get 30% off your entry fee when using the code SNWFEB25 at checkout. From 3 February, the ...

Bowel cancer screening can support cancer prevention and drive earlier diagnosis. Be Clear on Cancer (BCOC) campaigns were carried out to drive bowel screening uptake in England and Wales to support ...

How you feel after your bowel (colon) cancer operation depends on what type of surgery you have. After a big operation, you might wake up in the intensive care unit (ICU) or high dependency unit (HDU) ...

Early phase clinical trials are carried out to find out how safe and how effective an intervention is. Early phase clinical trials often use new and experimental therapies which may offer patients ...

In 2019/20, 14,000 volunteers gave 3.1 million hours of their time and sold items totalling £15million. These funds are helping us start new clinical trials and research treatments as we speak. If you ...

Donate your quality, pre-loved items or buy from our shops and online marketplaces. Every sale of your donated pre-loved items in our shops or on our online marketplaces helps to raise much needed ...

In 2019/20, 14,000 volunteers gave 3.1 million hours of their time and sold items totalling £15million. These funds are helping us start new clinical trials and research treatments as we speak. If you ...

When a close friend or relative dies, you go through a normal process called grieving. We grieve after any sort of loss in our lives. But it is most powerful when someone we love dies. Grieving is not ...

Chemotherapy uses anti cancer drugs to destroy cancer cells. Sometimes doctors use the word cytotoxic to describe the way chemotherapy works. Cytotoxic means toxic to cells. Some people may have ...