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        • A Review of Neuroendocrine Cancer
        • UN ANÁLISIS DEL CÁNCER NEUROENDOCRINO
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For Patients

  • ACOR Carcinoid E-Group Archives
  • Diagnosis
    • Checklist for the Newly Diagnosed
    • Diagnosis and Follow Up Tests
      • Preparing for the 24-Hour Urine 5HIAA Test
    • Newly Diagnosed #2
    • Newly Diagnosed: The Basics
    • Understanding the Biochemical Markers
  • General Information
    • A Review of Neuroendocrine Cancer
    • Living With Carcinoid
    • Mobile App for Carcinoid Cancer and Neuroendocrine Tumor Patients
    • Nutrition
      • Additional Resources about Nutrition and Diet:
      • Nutrition and Diet for Carcinoid Patients: An Interview with Jeffrey I. Mechanick, M.D.
    • Tips and Resources
    • UN ANÁLISIS DEL CÁNCER NEUROENDOCRINO
    • What If Insurance Won’t Pay?
      • Excerpt 10: Table of Contents — Frontal Attack
      • Excerpt 11 : Cover Letter — Opening Salvo
      • Excerpt 12: Treatment of Choice — Focus on Your Objective
      • Excerpt 13: Insurance Law — Powerful Ammo
      • Excerpt 14: Bad Medical Story — Shock and Awe
      • Excerpt 15: In-Network Doctors — Remove Their Lieutenants
      • Excerpt 16: Out-of-Network Expert — Bring in the General
      • Excerpt 17: Precedent — Call in the Troops
      • Excerpt 18: Experimental — Seize Their Weapons
      • Excerpt 19: Not Medically Necessary — Use Their Weapons
      • Excerpt 1: It’s Your Appeal
      • Excerpt 20: Rational for Denial — Mop up all Resistance
      • Excerpt 2: What an Appeal Is Not
      • Excerpt 3: An Appeal Is a Professional-Looking Document
      • Excerpt 4: An Appeal Is a Bluff
      • Excerpt 5: Before the Battle — First Three Things to Do
      • Excerpt 6: Where Are the First Three Places to Go When Your Insurance Company Denies?
      • Excerpt 7: Know Your Opponent — HMO or PPO?
      • Excerpt 8: Self-Funded Plans — A Battle on Two Fronts
      • Excerpt 9: Cover Page — First Strike
      • Resources for Carcinoid and NET Cancer Insurance Appeals
        • A Discussion on the Utility of Various Routes of Administration of Octreotide Acetate
  • Living With Neuroendocrine Tumors
  • Medical Opinion: Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Medical Opinion: When to Start and How to Treat Metastatic Carcinoid
  • More Information
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  • Show Your Stripes: Support Carcinoid/NET Awareness
  • Treatment
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      • Combination Therapy with Octreotide and Alpha-interferon
  • Videos
    • 2002 Annual Update and Review of Carcinoid Disease
    • Carcinoid Tumors and Carcinoid Syndrome: What they are, how they behave and how they are diagnosed
    • Carcinoid Tumors and the Carcinoid Syndrome: What’s new in the therapeutic pipeline
    • Coping with Carcinoid Diarrhea
    • Current Concepts in the Medical Treatment of Carcinoid
    • Diagnosing and Treating Carcinoid: The Dana-Farber Experience
    • Introduction to the Basic Science of Carcinoid
    • New Concepts in the Treatment of Carcinoid Tumors: What’s New, What’s Not, and What’s Hot
    • Peptides and Amines: What Are They and What Do They Do?
    • Psychological Effects of Carcinoid Disease: A study for carcinoid Patients and their Caregivers
    • The Role of Surgery and Chemoembolization in the Management of Carcinoid
    • CCF 2020 Video Series
    • CCF 2022 Video Series
    • CCF 50th Anniversary Videos
    • CCF 2012 Video Series
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