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https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/bc7eri/doctors_of_reddit_whats_your_best_they_came_in/
>I went in to get a cyst on my lip checked out and ended up needing open heart surgery.
>My dad went in for what seemed like a relatively minor issue (peeing too often). Turns out he had cancer that they only caught because of the scan. He's totally fine now but could have been dead.
>I had one a few months ago sent into the hospital by his primary care doctor with 'shoulder pain'. He said he felt absolutely fine, just a really uncomfortable right shoulder pain that hadn't gone away for a couple of weeks. He maybe felt a bit more tired than usual and oh, come to think of it, had lost quite a bit of weight recently and none of his clothes fit him any more.
>I went to examine him and had what we describe in the profession as a "heartsink" moment. He was jaundiced, and his abdomen was absolutely solid in the right upper zone from a huge, craggy liver.
>Get him in the ct scanner and he is just fulllll of cancer. Everywhere. Couldn't even work out which was the primary.
>my dad's skin was itching a lot and creams or allergy meds weren't giving relief. Went to the doctor and found out it was stage 4 liver cancer. He died 2 weeks later