Neuroendocrine cancer is often slow-moving

Dear Doctors: We have a family friend who passed away just three weeks after being diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. There were no symptoms at all, and it was found pretty much by accident, during an appendectomy. What kind of cancer is that? Does it always move so fast?

Dear Reader: Neuroendocrine cancer is a rare form of the disease. It occurs in a network of specialized cells that, working t…