My husband has lung cancer and we love getting the test results online from his CT scans. It's good to know as soon as possible what the actual situation is; whether it's good or bad. My husband's last full body scan showed a very small amount of growth of 2 nodules but there were many nodules that were unchanged which is good. Also there were 11 mentions of other parts of his body being "unremarkable." If it's "unremarkable" it can't be bad!

In other types of tests, early information helps you take steps to improve the problem. If you are low in a certain level such as Potassium, look up what foods have Potassium in them and eat more of them. Also when you come across a term like Creatinine; (What is that?) just go to the Mayo Clinic and look it up.

Patients need more information not less; especially when their doctors are very over worked these days and can't often see them for weeks or months.
PML