@carolinediehl, bayarea58
I have mentioned elsewhere that I ventured up to NJH in October 2023 after being diagnosed in August of 2022 by my PCP (he finally orderd a C Scan after two ultra sounds) due to the weight loss that he watched me go through as I visited him multiple times during the period of 2020 - 2022 saying something is wrong I keep needing to clear my throat of this "substance." At that time all blood tests were good and my general health in 2022 was still up to snuff for my age so I'm sure that leads to a time a lag element before they realize they need to do more testing. I was concerned with all the visits I had made to him that he might be thinking I was a hypochondriac.
With a visit to NJH you will have a battery of tests and demonstrations. This is to help rule out any other problems that one might have or is of concern also. The tests that they do would probably take a year or more to do if doing them locally due to local scheduling etc.
I was very pleased with NJH, the lead doctor I was assigned to and glad I ventured up there.
With this Mayo site however there was more information to learn and and help with truly understanding, so glad to have both sources available to me, us.

P.S All the doctors I was seeing to get an answer for what I was experiencing, once I told them I made myself an appointment with NJH, highly praised the decision and had all good things to say about NJH.
Barbara