Cancer awareness help us to be better informed about the disease and people can significantly reduce their health risk to enjoy a healthy and happy life. An understanding of cancer also makes people better able to support those with the disease, as well as help people reduce risks to potentially prevent cancers.

This November is Neoroendocrine, Pancreatic and Stomach Cancer Awareness Month. Pancreatic NETs are not the same as pancreatic adenocarcinoma, which accounts for more than 90 percent of pancreatic cancers. Pancreatic NETs form in endocrine cells, which release hormones. These cells sit in clusters called islets, which is why pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are also called islet cell tumors. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma develops in exocrine cells, which release digestive enzymes.