Tribute to Corie Dean, Founder of the Pacific NW Carcinoid-NET Support Group
Corie Dean is recognized as the founder and leader of the Pacific NW Carcinoid NET Support Group from 2006 (founding) to November 2013.
Corie was diagnosed with carcinoid cancer in 1998 after emergency surgery in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on Thanksgiving Day. She started the Washington chapter of the Pacific NW Carcinoid-NET Support Group in 2006. In that same year, Corie co-chaired the Pacific NW Carcinoid / NET Symposium in Portland, Oregon. As a result of her active involvement in understanding her cancer, over the years she counseled, informed, and comforted many carcinoid patients and their caregivers.
When her cancer began to significantly progress during 2012 and 2013, Corie traveled to Bad Berka, Germany for four PRRT treatments that enhanced and extended her life. Eventually she succumbed to the cancer in November of 2013.
Those of us who had the privilege of knowing Corie will always remember her efforts at running the support group and her energy and time spent assisting other patients.
About Us / Contact Us
Welcome to the website for the Pacific Northwest Carcinoid Net Support Group. Our group usually meets 3 times a year on a Saturday.
We would love to hear from you, especially if you are a newly diagnosed NET patient. Please feel free to send an email to us by clicking here.
We do not frequently add new information on the site. When this site was begun, there were not many information resources for NET patients. That has changed in the last 5-6 years and now there are a number of website that make available recent videos and documents about this cancer. In our resource section a number of those trusted organizations with information are noted.
Thank you NorCal CarciNet Community for hosting our site.
Meetings-Events
The next meeting of the support group will be held on Saturday, September 19th. This will be a general meeting. We do not have a presentation that day, but will have plenty of time for members to catch up. The meeting start time is 10am. A 2-hour meeting is planned. A brief Agenda and Zoom invite will be sent in the week of September 14th. Ideas for discussion topics are always welcome. Since we have not had meetings for many months, a second general meeting will be planned for October 24, if needed.
For people wanting to join the group, please send an email to Caryn Jamero at
Our support group meetings are normally on a Saturday and we start at 10am. We try to keep the meetings to no longer than 2 hours, except when we have a presentation to the group.
The invitation & Link to the meeting will be sent out the week before the scheduled meeting, if not sooner.
Support Group Meeting Videos
Videos from speakers we have had at meetings
Carcinoid/NET Patient Education Day
2014 day of learning and support
Featuring Dr. Veena Shankaran, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Dr. Flavio Rocha, Virginia Mason Medical Center
Click below for presentations
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