Benign liver lesions and cysts – something or nothing?
BackgroundI wanted to focus on two terms "lesion" and "cyst" given these are mentioned all the time in my online patient group, on many occasions by a worried newly diagnosed patient who has just been told (or read before an appointment) this was something found during diagnostic scans. Sometimes cysts are included in the term "liver lesions". Lesion is defined as "An area of abnormal tissue. A lesion may be benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous)". The majority of liver lesions are non-cancerous (benign) and will not be related to Neuroendocrine Cancer, or any cancer. Many lesions are detected during imaging tests…