Endocrine Abstracts

In 1996, in Monte Carlo’s famous Loewes Hotel, I went from sudden crippling gastric pain to continuous flushing in the space of <24 h, on my return to the UK, I was diagnosed with Carcinoid syndrome. Based on freely available information on the Web at that time, in my mind my life expectancy was going to be 6 years from the point of diagnosis.This session will discuss the impact of a ‘skewed’ sample on the following 6 years of my life ...