Endocrine Abstracts

In 1996, in Monte Carlo’s famous Loewes Hotel, I went from sudden crippling gastric pain to continuous flushing in the space of <24 h, on my return to the UK, I was diagnosed with Carcinoid syndrome. Based on freely available information on the Web at that time, in my mind my life expectancy was going to be 6 years from the point of diagnosis.

This session will discuss the impact of a ‘skewed’ sample on the following 6 years of my life and more generally what living with this condition has been like since then. I will also present the regime I have developed to co-exist with my tumors.

Oh I do have two ears – slightly more than the average – you just can’t trust statistics!