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In today's medical world, technology dominates, investigations are often performed without evidence-based indications and incidental findings are abundant. Knowing what to do with this information is challenging especially for patients who may already have received devastating news. In this issue of Clinical Endocrinology, Wadsley and colleagues representing expertise in Oncology, Radiology, Endocrinology and Endocrine Nursing, touch upon a subject which existing guidelines have tended to skim over, and offer their consensus view.1 Notably the scenario they focus on differs from the more commonly encountered setting of patients who as a rule are healthy, are inappropriately referred for imaging of the neck, which in turn reveals a suspicious nodule. Ample evidence-based advice on management of such patients is already available. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.