'My stomach kept ballooning - then doctors finally said I had an invisible disease'

Teona Gherasim

A mum is living with an “invisible” cancer that can’t be treated – because it isn’t growing fast enough. Kerie Ivory has small bowel neuroendocrine tumours that have spread to her lymph nodes, liver, spine and rib. But the 52 year old has been told she must wait for the tumours to grow larger before further treatment can begin. Neuroendocrine tumours are often described as slow-growing and difficult to detect, meaning patients can live with them for years before diagnosis. "It’s hard living