As said by a classical text book on Pathology, "Tumours don't read text books of
Pathology." The statement more than anything explains the bizarre nature of
tumours. For centuries tumours were an enigma - difficult to comprehend, taxing
to diagnose and challenging to treat. Everyone had been perplexed when
encountered with the tumours. The common man finds it hard to come to terms that
he (or some one known to him) has a tumour. The practicing clinician faces the
problem whether to order a diagnostic test and when to ask for that. And then he
has to explain the result to the patient. While is it