World NET Cancer Day a Success in Canada
On Friday, November 10th, 2017 – World NET Cancer Day, businesses and coffee shops around the world raised awareness about NETs using special coffee cups designed for the day. CNETS [...]
Diagnostic Scan – Ga68
The Gallium 68 scan, used with functional PET imaging, is a nuclear medicine scan that relies on the over-expression of somatostatin receptors to visualize tumours. NETs typically express several somatostatin receptor subtypes in [...]
Somatuline (lanreotide) Access in Manitoba & Alberta
As we advised previously, in July of this year the Manitoba government issued a bulletin http://www.gov.mb.ca/health/mdbif/…/bulletins/bulletin93.pdf that indicated a change in the listing for Somatuline (from 1 to 3 and no access [...]
Caprelsa (vandetanib) for Medullary Thyroid NETs
Caprelsa is indicated for the treatment of symptomatic or progressive medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) in adult patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic disease. An application for this drug was [...]
Afinitor (everolimus) for NETs of Gastrointestinal or Lung origin
Afinitor is currently paid for by provincial drug plans for patients with well-or moderately differentiated neuroendocrine tumours of pancreatic origin (pNET), in patients with unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic disease. [...]
Dr. Suzanne Richter
It is with profound sadness that we share the news of the passing of Dr. Suzanne Richter, Medical Oncologist on the NET team at London Health Sciences Centre. This is [...]
CCO to provide Ga68 Scan to Ontario patients
CCO to provide Ga-Octreotate to Ontario patients free of charge in Sherbrooke A message from Helena Senta: “At this time, CCO is proceeding with PET scan approval for the [...]
Thank you
Thank you to all our donors and volunteers! As we start anew into 2017, CNETS Canada would like to acknowledge and thank all our donors and volunteers for their generosity. [...]
Campaign Shines Spotlight on Rare Cancer
Media Release Campaign Shines Spotlight on Rare Cancer on November 10th –World NET Cancer Day Toronto, ON – November 10th, 2016 – Today is World NET Cancer Day. To raise [...]
“LET’S TALK ABOUT NETs”
Media Advisory “LET’S TALK ABOUT NETs” Campaign Shines Spotlight on Rare Cancer Toronto, ON – October 27, 2016 – Between 12,000 to 15,000 Canadians are estimated to have a rare [...]