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How long does it take to get your Decipher test results usually?
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What would be really aggravating is if Veracyte charges for 2 tests even though they destroyed the pattern 4 sample without providing results. It sounds as though JH got insurance approval since they are sending the Gleason 6 sample.
My concern is that I suggested that they do an ArteraAI test on the existing pattern 4 slide (which is not destructive) instead of the Gleason 6 decipher since the results are likely to be more accurate. If insurance already paid for the Veracyte test they may not cover the other. I might have to pay for that out of pocket.
I am really getting frustrated. I can't help but think that somebody screwed up for this to happen, either at JH or Veracyte.
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@keithl56
I agree if they were to acknowledge the destruction was on their part and it was not insufficient from the pathologist who forwarded it.
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@keithl56
Decipher it not the ends all to everything. Their are other tests that can help determine your course of direction. If you were highly likely going forward with treatment anyway versus AS and wanted a low Decipher to to tip you to AS, and decided on AS you would be continuing probably mri’s and biopsy and finally make a decision. The ExoDx urine marker test which assists in determining the need sometimes for a biopsy can also give you a feeling on the nature of the likelihood of your having clinically significant cancer. It’s certainly not decipher. My decipher was not going to tip me, I was going for surgery based on my biopsy anyway and my decipher order was just the process of being my workup and it happened to come back at 70. My ExoDx was 40.