2023-07-15 15:00:00
THE neuroendocrine tumors are little known. Rare, they can be benign or malignant, of slow or very rapid evolution. They develop from cells neuroendocrines “, which have the ability to produce hormones. They control and regulate many functions in the body such as digestion and respiration.
If these cells proliferate in an anarchic way, we speak of endocrine tumor. They can develop throughout the body, but particularly affect the digestive tract, the pancreas and the lungs.
A father in fact shelled the costs. Diagnosed 10 years ago, he had been sentenced by doctors. More’a hundred tumors had been detected in him to the liver.
If Craig Speirs is still alive today, he is fighting to raise funds to help patients affected by this disease.
It all started with hot flashes
This father of two children was diagnosed in 2008 when he was 32 years old. When he talks about his first symptomshe evokes the frequent hot flashes and cravings : he went to the toilet 10 to 15 times a day. He also had regular heart palpitations. It took him five years to get a diagnosis. Its manifestations left doctors perplexed.
His cancer had started in the rectum before spreading to generate hundreds of tumors (…)
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