The Mayo Clinic experience and patient stories Our patients tell us that the quality of their interactions, our attention to detail and the efficiency of their visits mean health care like they've never experienced. See the stories of satisfied Mayo Clinic patients. Living out loud after complex liver cancer treatmentKim Brown during a 2025 hiking trip to Acadia National Park in Maine. Kim Brown was running on a treadmill — training for her next half-marathon — when she received a phone call that stopped her short. What started as an evaluation of an ovarian mass, which was later determined to be benign, quickly revealed something far more serious: a large tumor deep in the center of her liver. Just moments earlier, she had been focused on finishing… Resecting the unresectable: The right place, the right team CV Rao and his wife, Madhavi In April 2023, CV Rao had just returned from a work trip in Europe when he started experiencing abdominal pain on his right side. His wife, a doctor, recognized that he needed to see his primary care physician for an ultrasound scan. When the ultrasound didn't show anything, CV's care team ordered a CT scan. The results were alarming — a 7 centimeter tumor, the size of a large… Request an appointment ResearchCosts & insurance March 21, 2025 Share on: FacebookTwitter Hepatobiliary and Pancreas Surgery in RochesterSectionsOverviewTests & proceduresConditions treatedDoctorsExpertise & rankingsClinical trialsResearchPatient storiesCosts & insuranceNews from Mayo ClinicReferrals SectionsRequest an AppointmentOverviewTests & proceduresConditions treatedDoctorsExpertise & rankingsClinical trialsResearchPatient storiesCosts & insuranceNews from Mayo ClinicReferrals ORG-20530416 Medical Departments & Centers Hepatobiliary and Pancreas Surgery in Rochester