Obtain Second Opinion Consultation to Confirm your Pathology Diagnosis
We offer second opinion on your pathology results to confirm your diagnosis. Our service will assist you in eliminating errors and in getting the correct diagnosis for proper staging of cancer cases in order to receive the appropriate treatment by your physician oncologist or surgeon.
Second Opinion Consultation Service
ConfirmPath LLC offers a fee-based second opinion review of the pathology slides to confirm all types of pathology diagnosis (including malignant diagnosis) on all forms of tissues such as breast, colon, prostate or lung cancers. Types of samples we examine include biopsies, excisions, resections, FNAs (fine needle aspirations), cytopathology preparations and bone marrow samplings.
We also offer second opinion consultation for all Clinical Pathology reports by reviewing chemistry reports, hematology reports, lipid profiles, protein analysis, blood bank reports and others. For an extensive listing of tissues, materials, and the most common diagnoses that we review for second opinion please see "Our Service."
Why is it Important to Obtain a Second Opinion for your Pathology Diagnosis?
Second opinion is important because errors in pathology labs do occur, and no patient could afford any mistakes in their pathology reports. According to published statistics (Cancer Important Statistics), diagnostic errors could reach up to 6% of the total cases examined by any average lab when the cases were reviewed by one pathologist. The second opinion review discovered those errors (6%) and helped in reaching the correct diagnosis when all of the cases were reviewed by a second pathologist.
Treating physicians and surgeons rely heavily on the pathology diagnosis to lay down further treatment plans (surgical procedure, radiation therapy, chemotherapy...etc) that would, in most cases, have physical or at least psychological negative effect on the patients. For all the reasons mentioned above, our pathologists advises patients who had any type of pathology diagnosis, including malignant diagnosis, a vague diagnosis, or even a benign diagnosis, to obtain a second opinion consult to rule out errors, because errors are costly.
Background & Overview
Our pathologists have encountered, during their training as well as in practice, many examples of errors that would have been simply corrected and eliminated had the slides been reviewed by a second pathologist and a second opinion was established. Most errors are as simple as a typing error that usually goes unnoticed and has no impact on managment. However, simple errors such as a paperwork/slides swap could have a catastrophic effect on the treatment plan by giving a wrong diagnosis of cancer to a patient who does not have the disease. Such errors are easily discovered and corrected when obtaining a second opinion.
What to expect from a second opinion consultation?
Our second opinion service is designed to reach the correct diagnosis on your benign or malignant pathology case. Our service is not designed just to alter your diagnosis in any way or for any reasons other than to reach the correct diagnosis, including legal reasons or just to create conflicts in final diagnosis. In fact most of the second opinion consult cases will result in an unchanged diagnosis. An average of only 6% of cases will result in significant alteration of the diagnosis. Although 6% might sound like a small percentage; However, percentages are of no value if your case belongs to this 6 % error group.
Confidentiality & Privacy
By ordering second opinion consult on your pathology diagnosis, your signed release form will be used to obtain slides or other pathology reports from the pathology lab where your initial test was performed. Your case will be carefully examined by an experienced American board of pathology-certified pathologist who will issue a second opinion report and mail it to you.Confidentiality is fully maintained throughout our service process. Your information including name, e-mail, address, phone number, diagnosis, all reports, and payment process are confidential information; not to be shared with any other parties.
ConfirmPath LLC meets all the national standards to protect the privacy of personal health information by following the HIPAA regulations when dealing with patient's medical and personal information.
Requesting Second Opinion Consultation
To request a second opinion confirmation of your pathology diagnosis click here.
