I am taking a couple

of days away from thinking about cancer. Today and tomorrow am posting two videos from the May 1, 2011 Carcinoid Cancer Foundation Symposium in LA for patients and caregivers.

This first video features a talk by one of the luminaries in the field, Dr. Edward Wollins, co-director of the Cedars-Sinai Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Program in Los Angeles. The titlee of the talk is Carcinoid and NETs in 2011: Now, New, Next. It runs about 47 minutes. There is a lot of very good–though for me very painful–information in this. If you want to know where we were medically six months ago, this and the video I will post tomorrow are very good places to start.

The middle of next month is the three day NANETS conference in Minneapolis. That will give us an even better picture of the progress being made. The rate at which we are learning new things about this disease is incredible.