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Poucho,

As I mentioned I also get my test or scan results online via the Yale Health Network which sends me an email alert to log into my account. Sometimes I see the scans before my doctor does, sometimes not. Because of Thyroid Cancer my TSH and tumor markers are checked quarterly and for my Remicade treatment my liver chemistries are blood lab checked monthly because of methotrexate. My endocrinologist will usually shoot me a quick private message on the Yale Health Network offering his interpretations of the lab results which are usually pithy statements like “TSH and thyroglobulin levels both look excellent!”

My GI is older and usually calls. He also sends letters on biopsy results.

I remember when I had the cancerous thyroid removed the pathology report came to me online via an email alert to log in and noted that I was a stage 3 cancer, the measurements of the tumor and the locations of the metastasis into the lymph nodes which were removed. I asked the surgeon how he knew where the lymph nodes were into which the cancer metastasized and he said by the color. Cancer turns a lymph node bluish in color.

Bottom line on this thread is that diagnostic testing of any kind is easily accessible online and one can speak to his or her doctor about any language contained in the report that is unclear or mystifying. 

Even doctors get confused. I had a lung x Ray recently which ultimately confirmed I had pneumonia and a second x Ray last week (2 months post pneumonia) that confirmed my lungs are now clear. There was a delay on the first X Ray report discussion because my PCP was confused by language the radiologist used to refer to the pneumonia indicator. It was pneumonia though.

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