Endocrine Abstracts

These days, many children with a RET gene change are diagnosed through genetic screening programmes when there is a parent with the gene change. I wasn’t one of those children and was not diagnosed with MEN2 until I was 31 years old. My son was diagnosed through screening at 2 years old. I will share our family’s story of how we adjusted to the ’new normal’, and how we live with this condition day-to-day more than 20 years down the line. I will also share some thoughts of the wider community in my role as CEO of the Association for Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Disorders (AMEND).