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Anyone found an easy way to get a second opinion on pathology?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Oct 17 7:28am | Replies (10)
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@paulmsp61

I used Johns Hopkins to get a second opinion - https://pathology.jhu.edu/patient-care/second-opinions/send. It looks like the process has changed since I submitted mine 3 years ago. It was not Johns Hopkins that required me to send the slides myself, it was the urologist who did my biopsy that required me to send the slides, as they didn't want to be involved in handling them.

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jeremy904 | @jeremy904 | Oct 16 6:56am

First off, thank you @paulmsp61 for sharing that link. I found it early in my research journey on MCC and used it for finding my second consult with JHU.

I wanted to share my excellent experience with JHU's pathology. I followed the instructions on the website, filled out the form, contacted the hospital that did my biopsy to send my slides, and got the results back within a week.

Dr. Ezra Baraban was the one who did my second consult. His pathology report was 10x more detailed than my original pathology report. It unfortunately showed that I had some Gleason 7 (3+4) and moved me up into grade group 2 and that there was some perineural invasion. It honestly threw me back into the doom spiral that happened when I first received my diagnosis, BUT I reached out to Dr. Baraban via email with my questions. He followed up my email with an actual phone call less than an hour later. His intelligence and tactfulness in describing where I was at with the upgraded diagnosis eased a ton of my anxiety and helped me understand the best route forward given my age (38), Gleason score (a lot of 6 and a small amount of 7), and other factors like MRI (negative at the start of this) and PSA (4.2 - 4.7).

I highly recommend JHU pathology and Dr. Baraban if anyone feels like they want a second consult.

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