Plan D, Part I: Genetic Testing

After learning I would not be receiving any further help from the oncologist or my PCP figuring out what is going on, I had to move on to my next plan of attack. For a variety of reasons – including the obvious reason that I am very symptomatic and had a suspicious Octreoscan finding from January – there is no way I can just give up. My current plan is to try and gather some more hard evidence and then, with the help of the Wizard, try again with another specialist…

a tale of two tumors

After learning I would not be receiving any further help from the oncologist or my PCP figuring out what is going on, I had to move on to my next plan of attack.   For a variety of reasons – including the obvious reason that I am very symptomatic and had a suspicious Octreoscan finding from January – there is no way I can just give up.   My current plan is to try and gather some more hard evidence and then, with the help of the Wizard, try again with another specialist.

I am getting very impatient waiting for the results of the genetic test to come back from the NIH.   If I do have MEN-1, I am most likely a “sporadic” case (i.e., I don’t have a clear family history of MEN-1).   I already know that roughly 40 percent of clinically confirmed sporadic cases do not…

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