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07-23-2007, 06:24 PM

Bonnie,

Are you planning to send your slides to a different lab for a second pathology report? This pathologist sounds somewhat . . . careless. . . . dim. I would think considering the issues you've had that your insurance would pay for a second opinion. Also, if he had this opinion about oncotype as it relates to your pathology, why did he send the slides out in the first place? Didn't the oncologist and the pathologist work together? I believe from what I've heard that the test is quite expensive.

As Hopeful says, it's still a very small cancer and, in fact, Adjuvant Online doesn't distinguish between 1a and 1b in prognosis. Also, did he give you what you went for: did he tell you which tissue was sent for oncotype testing? I hope so. None of this is what you need now, but it'll be over soon, you'll be back home, and life will start to seem normal again.

07-23-2007, 06:24 PM	#39
Grace Guest Posts: n/a	Bonnie, Are you planning to send your slides to a different lab for a second pathology report? This pathologist sounds somewhat . . . careless. . . . dim. I would think considering the issues you've had that your insurance would pay for a second opinion. Also, if he had this opinion about oncotype as it relates to your pathology, why did he send the slides out in the first place? Didn't the oncologist and the pathologist work together? I believe from what I've heard that the test is quite expensive. As Hopeful says, it's still a very small cancer and, in fact, Adjuvant Online doesn't distinguish between 1a and 1b in prognosis. Also, did he give you what you went for: did he tell you which tissue was sent for oncotype testing? I hope so. None of this is what you need now, but it'll be over soon, you'll be back home, and life will start to seem normal again.