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"And then not only that but in my case I have the cancer on top of that so my cancer gets aggressive. Now, I have carcinoid syndrome which is ... there's different kinds of symptoms on that cancer. Mine is, I get hot flashes. I get really red, really hot. And then my heart starts going like if I'm having a mini heart attack. It goes really quick and it hurts. And going through the withdraw, that just makes it ten times worse."

Whereas Matt gravitated toward drug use by choice, Jade described how she developed an opioid addiction at the age of 19 because of the painkilling medicines she was prescribed after undergoing surgery for carcinoid syndrome — "liver cancer, basically."

Anne Favo, 80, an associate editor for the American Bus Association’s Destinations magazine in the 1980s and ’90s, died April 10 at a nursing home in Verona, Pa. The cause was carcinoid syndrome, said a son, James McGrath.

The drug telotristat etiprate is being studied to treat carcinoid syndrome, a secondary condition that develops in patients with tumors in the gastrointestinal tract.

Earlier this year, Endo stopped development of its octreotide implant for the treatment of carcinoid syndrome, a group of symptoms associated with a slow-growing type of tumor.