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So patients of neuroendocrine tumours often present first time to a doctor's clinic with large volume liver metastasis, and these, because these are relatively indolent tumours, especially those patients who have non-functioning neuroendocrine tumours, which means that these patients don't secrete the hormones which cause the typical carcinoid syndrome of flushing and diarrhoea and redness and sweating.
So about 80 percent of patients of neuroendocrine tumour don't have functioning tumours, and it is this segment of patients who often present first time to the clinic with large volume liver metastasis.
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