Incidental findings and Incidentalomas – NET or NOT

Incidental findings and Incidentalomas – NET or NOT

During my diagnostics, I presented to my general practitioner as someone with symptoms of iron deficiency anaemia with some weight loss (not a lot but some).  The GP at this point had no alternative but to refer me to secondary care where they had the tools to investigate further - e.g. imaging and endoscopies. The use of laboratory testing and imaging devices are there to not only back up the a doctor's clinical hypotheses but also to test them, i.e. these laboratory tests and imaging checks may lead to others. Differential checks are not misdiagnoses, they are part of the…
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Benign liver lesions and cysts – something or nothing?

Benign liver lesions and cysts – something or nothing?

Background I 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…
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