Informed Prostate Cancer Patient Support

Breaking Down the Barriers: New Ways to Understand Your Pathology Report How AI and innovative clinics are helping prostate cancer patients decode their test results You're Not Alone in Your Confusion If you've ever stared at your pathology report feeling confused and anxious, you're definitely not alone. Thanks to the 21st Century Cures Act, we now receive our test results through patient portals as soon as they're ready—often before our doctors have even seen them. While this gives us faster access to information, it can also leave us trying to decode medical reports that weren't written with patients in mind. Ted, a prostate cancer patient, knows this feeling all too well. He got his biopsy results on a Friday afternoon through his patient portal. "I saw carcinoma and I went, 'Holy [expletive], I have cancer,'" he shared during a recent webinar. "My first thought was, 'Okay, what do I do now?'" Despite calling his urologi...