So often misdiagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome or Crohn’s disease, carcinoid cancer is a diagnosis where doctors are thinking zebras not horses. The saying goes back to medical school when students are taught to consider the uncommon. “Ninety-nine percent of the time if you hear a hoof beat, it came from a horse. But for that one percent of the time, it was a zebra,” explains Dr. Eugene Woltering, one of the country’s leading carcinoid and neuroendocrine cancer specialists.
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