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‘I’ll be there for my daughters,’ Florida woman’s pledge while navigating cancer

Diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor at 38, Lorie Kirkman found treatment that supported her quality of life at Mayo Clinic.

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Innovative therapy improves lives of people with neuroendocrine tumors

When Jay Elsten's neuroendocrine tumors no longer were responding to traditional treatment, Mayo Clinic offered him a recently approved nuclear medicine therapy. Within a week, Jay's symptoms were gone.