{"id":7159,"date":"2018-10-19T18:10:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T18:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/observant-decision.flywheelsites.com\/carolinas\/?page_id=7159"},"modified":"2025-01-15T01:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T01:51:55","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chapter.netcan.org\/carolinas-charleston\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1539476912384{border-bottom-width: 10px !important;background-color: #016566 !important;background-position: 0 0 !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;border-bottom-color: #035455 !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1548372346584{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 10px !important;padding-right: 30px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;background-image: url(https:\/\/chapter.netcan.org\/carolinas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/10\/f_carolinas_state_15_logo.png?id=7174) !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;100&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1539544408454{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1610480521156{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #cccccc;\">ncan support groups \u2013 carolinas chapter \u2013 charleston<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1539553476743{padding-top: 10px !important;}&#8221; accent_color=&#8221;#e3e3e3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1539208118513{padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1545340847119{padding-bottom: 25px !important;background-color: #e3e3e3 !important;}&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1545340834630{background-color: #bbbbbb !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;7826&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1562437922133{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#999999&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #777777;\"><strong>Meet Kathleen<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#999999&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1572556805500{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">My name is Kathleen Cartland and I live in Charleston SC. I was diagnosed with carcinoid in April 2017, after having frequent bowel obstructions for five years. When a tumor finally showed up on a CT Scan, I opted for exploratory surgery.<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Once being DX, I immediately \u201cgoogled\u201d NET tumors and found NCAN. Thanks to this organization, I was able to attend a NCAN meeting in Charlotte and quickly learned the upside and downside to this rare cancer.\u00a0 The biggest downside was not having a NET specialist \/ oncologist in our large metropolitan area.<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Recognizing that \u201cknowledge is king,\u201d and now understanding first-hand, \u201cbeing your own advocate is queen,\u201d I am very excited about organizing the first NET Support Chapter in the state of SC.\u00a0 We hope to bring other NET patients and family members in the Coastal Carolina area together to learn more, share more and understand more about neuroendocrine tumors.<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1562436970233{margin-top: 10px !important;background-color: #bbbbbb !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;7827&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1562437943713{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#999999&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #777777;\"><strong>Meet Roger<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#999999&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1562439839504{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">I live in Charleston and was diagnosed with <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netcancerawareness.org\/glossary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carcinoid Syndrome<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>in May 2005. My primary tumor was in the small intestine and was discovered during a routine colonoscopy. I had surgery that removed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netcancerawareness.org\/glossary\/page\/4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>primary tumor<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and all affected Lymph Nodes. The tumors had spread to my liver and the surgeon felt I had too many tumors to remove.<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">My primary symptoms were flushing, diarrhea and wheezing. My Oncologist recommended the watch and see approach and the tumor were stable for about four years. Then they started to grow rapidly. My Oncologist told me nothing could be done and gave me five to ten years to live.<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">My wife, Teresa and I began to research other options. We went to <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The University of Nebraska<\/a><\/strong><\/em> for a liver transplant evaluation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdanderson.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>MD Anderson<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> in Houston<\/strong><\/em> and a few others medical institutions. We untimely opted for pRRT treatment and traveled to Bad Berka, Germany on four occasions and had there pRRT treatments. My liver tumors decreased by about 20% but again began to grow. The four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netcancerawareness.org\/glossary\/page\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>GA-68<\/strong><\/em><\/a> scans confirmed my remaining 14 tumors were isolated in my liver and ranged from 2cm to 7cm in size.\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">With this knowledge I opted to have the liver targeted Sirs-Spheres treatment at the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.musc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston<\/strong><\/em><\/a> with similar results. The MUSC Interventional Radiologist recommended Chemoembolization. I had the 1st Chemoembolization in December 2012 and the MRI scan a month later showed the tumors had been destroyed. I had a second Chemoembolization treatment in January and a third in February.<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Every MRI scan for the past six years continue to show no signs of active tumors. I realize everyone does not have the same result but I hope this information will be helpful to another patient.<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1562437003073{margin-top: 10px !important;background-color: #bbbbbb !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;7828&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1562437963964{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#999999&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #777777;\"><strong>Meet Laurie<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; border_width=&#8221;2&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#999999&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1562440205090{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Hi, I live in Charleston, SC and have been the advocate and caregiver for my husband, Rob, who was diagnosed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netcancerawareness.org\/glossary\/page\/4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>NET<\/strong><\/em><\/a> in 2005. His primary was found in his lung after a year of battling doctors convinced he had asthma. The tumor was at the juncture of the bronchial entry to the third lobe of his left lung which required the removal of the entire lobe.<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u201cBack then\u201d even less was known about these less-than-common tumors and we were basically told they don\u2019t return and he \u201cshould be fine\u201d after the removal. Years passed and the follow up became more and more relaxed. After numerous other health challenges, new symptoms prompted me to push for a more aggressive follow up and in fall of 2018 we were told he had tumors in his liver, spine and pelvis and the original site in the lung was also questionable.<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">In the whirlwind of the past 9 months, we have had traveled and visited what seems to be countless doctors and specialists many of whom we clearly had more knowledge of NET than they. After liver resection in January and cyber knife treatment on Rob\u2019s spine, we continue to search for the right treatment options for his continuing care.<\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Our attendance at the NCAN conference this spring was enlightening and we very much appreciated being able to meet more frontrunners in the fight against this crazy disease. I hope to bring the caregivers perspective to our SC Chapter meetings and look forward to us all learning together.<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1539544932878{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1562436250407{padding-top: 25px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #832623;\">Ms. Kathleen Cartland<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>CAROLINAS SUPPORT GROUP LEADER<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>(843) 814-2800<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"mailto:kathleenncan.charleston@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>kathleenncan.charleston@gmail.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1562528884280{margin-top: 15px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #832623;\">Mr. Roger Jones<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>CAROLINAS SUPPORT GROUP LEADER<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>(843) 607-2448<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"mailto:rogerncan.charleston@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>rogerncan.charleston@gmail.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1562528875741{margin-top: 15px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #832623;\">Ms. Laurie Kramer<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>CAROLINAS SUPPORT GROUP LEADER<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>(843) 209-5047<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"mailto:lauriencan.charleston@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>lauriencan.charleston@gmail.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=&#8221;GROUP MEETING CALENDAR&#8221; 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Our meetings are all about getting to know people who understand exactly what you\u2019re going through, and about sharing resources, experiences and support. 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I was diagnosed with carcinoid in April 2017, after having frequent bowel obstructions for five years. When a tumor finally showed up on a CT Scan, I opted for exploratory surgery. Once being DX, I immediately \u201cgoogled\u201d NET tumors and found NCAN. Thanks to this organization, I was able to attend a NCAN meeting in Charlotte and quickly learned the upside and downside to this rare cancer.\u00a0 The biggest downside was not having a NET specialist \/ oncologist in our large metropolitan area. Recognizing that \u201cknowledge is king,\u201d and now understanding first-hand, \u201cbeing your own advocate is queen,\u201d I am very excited about organizing the first NET Support Chapter in the state of SC.\u00a0 We hope to bring other NET patients and family members in the Coastal Carolina area together to learn more, share more and understand more about neuroendocrine tumors. 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The tumors had spread to my liver and the surgeon felt I had too many tumors to remove. My primary symptoms were flushing, diarrhea and wheezing. My Oncologist recommended the watch and see approach and the tumor were stable for about four years. Then they started to grow rapidly. My Oncologist told me nothing could be done and gave me five to ten years to live. My wife, Teresa and I began to research other options. We went to The University of Nebraska for a liver transplant evaluation. MD Anderson in Houston and a few others medical institutions. We untimely opted for pRRT treatment and traveled to Bad Berka, Germany on four occasions and had there pRRT treatments. My liver tumors decreased by about 20% but again began to grow. The four GA-68 scans confirmed my remaining 14 tumors were isolated in my liver and ranged from 2cm to 7cm in size.\u00a0 With this knowledge I opted to have the liver targeted Sirs-Spheres treatment at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston with similar results. The MUSC Interventional Radiologist recommended Chemoembolization. I had the 1st Chemoembolization in December 2012 and the MRI scan a month later showed the tumors had been destroyed. 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