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Hello @tomrennie and welcome to the NETs discussion on Mayo Clinic Connect. It sounds like you have an incredible medical team at Mayo! That is good news that the cancer is not spreading and that some of the tumors have been reduced. You must be so pleased with these results.
I love the way you asked your doctor to "dumb it down." I may use that at some time in the future. The fact that your doctor took the time to draw pictures is great. You are correct when you say that cancer is something that needs to be managed for the rest of your life. So true!
I have had three surgeries for NETs in the upper digestive tract and mine were found "incidentally." In other words, I wasn't having any symptoms, they were found during a routine upper endoscopy.
I would be interested in knowing how your cancer was diagnosed. Were you having symptoms that led to the diagnosis? What type of tests/scans were done to determine that this was NETs?