Patients review their pathology reports before their treating physician: heading towards patient autonomy? Focus on prostate cancer

We read with interest the recent publication in the Journal of Clinical Pathology by Ranot et al entitled “If you provide them, they will come: an observational study of online pathology report access by patients at a large, academic, tertiary care hospital in Canada”.1 They found that “53% of patients accessed their report before the treating physician”.