1.   Glatt was diagnosed with carcinoid tumors in his spine, which is rare because such growths usually are found in the stomach or esophagus.

2.   It was not a polyp, but a rare carcinoid tumor.

3.   Others learn that they have carcinoid tumors only after they have grown and begun to cause symptoms.

4.   The symptoms can be so severe that they, not the carcinoid tumors themselves, are the cause of death.