# Neuroendocrine Cancer Foundation

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## TL;DR

A US patient organisation for people with neuroendocrine tumours and neuroendocrine cancer, known until 2025 as LACNETS, that runs recorded education talks by NET specialists, peer mentoring and patient conferences.

## Summary

The Neuroendocrine Cancer Foundation describes its mission as a community of support and education for people with neuroendocrine cancer or neuroendocrine tumours, and advocacy for everyone affected by the disease, according to its about page. The same page traces it to GeneratePossibility, a non-profit a NET patient founded in 2012, which launched the Los Angeles Carcinoid Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (LACNETS) and its patient education speaker series; talks have been recorded for a wider audience since 2014. LACNETS became Learn Advocate Connect Neuroendocrine Tumor Society in November 2022 and chose the name Neuroendocrine Cancer Foundation in March 2025. Its home page lists a peer support system that pairs newly diagnosed patients with mentors, regional patient conferences and videos in which specialists explain open trials. The IRS records it in Hermosa Beach, California, with tax exemption issued in March 2009.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-05
- Also known as: NCF; LACNETS; Learn Advocate Connect Neuroendocrine Tumor Society; Los Angeles Carcinoid Neuroendocrine Tumor Society
- City: Hermosa Beach, CA, US
- Type: consortium
- Website: https://www.ncf.net

## Sources

- About the Neuroendocrine Cancer Foundation: https://www.ncf.net/about
- Neuroendocrine Cancer Foundation home page: https://www.ncf.net/
- IRS record (via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer): https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200062062

## Connected records

- institutions: [Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation](https://onco.cc/institutions/netrf/), [NorCal CarciNET Community](https://onco.cc/institutions/norcal-carcinet/), [The Healing NET Foundation](https://onco.cc/institutions/healing-net-foundation/)
- cancers: [Extrapulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/extrapulmonary-nec/), [Lung neuroendocrine tumours (typical and atypical carcinoid)](https://onco.cc/cancers/lung-net/), [Neuroendocrine tumours](https://onco.cc/cancers/neuroendocrine/), [Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours](https://onco.cc/cancers/pancreatic-net/)

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