Across conditions
Diagnosis answers across conditions
Plain-language answers about diagnosis — gathered from every condition we cover, at the reading level that fits you, with the right questions to bring back to your care team. Educational, not medical advice.
Alzheimer's disease & MCI
All diagnosis answers for Alzheimer's disease & MCI →Breast cancer
All diagnosis answers for Breast cancer →Colorectal cancer
All diagnosis answers for Colorectal cancer →Crohn's disease
All diagnosis answers for Crohn's disease →- What are tests like colonoscopy or imaging actually looking for?
- What are these tests like colonoscopy or imaging looking for in my diagnosis and care?
- What is Crohn's disease and how might it affect my body now that I've been diagnosed?
- What is Crohn's disease and how will it affect my body now that I've been diagnosed?
Heart failure
All diagnosis answers for Heart failure →IBD (unspecified)
All diagnosis answers for IBD (unspecified) →- What does it mean to have IBD if my doctor hasn't confirmed whether it's Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis?
- What does it mean to have IBD when my doctor hasn't confirmed Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis yet?
- What tests might come next to help narrow down my diagnosis, and what will they show?
- What tests might I need, and what are they looking for?
Non-small cell lung cancer
All diagnosis answers for Non-small cell lung cancer →- What happens during a lung biopsy, and why is it needed along with imaging?
- What is a liquid biopsy, and when might my care team use it instead of a tissue sample?
- What is biomarker testing, and why does it matter so much for lung cancer?
- What is non-small cell lung cancer, and how is it different from other types of lung cancer?
Pancreatic cancer
All diagnosis answers for Pancreatic cancer →Prostate cancer
All diagnosis answers for Prostate cancer →- What does an elevated PSA level mean, and does it definitely mean I have cancer?
- What is a Gleason score, and what does it tell me about how serious my prostate cancer might be?
- What is a PSA test, and why do doctors have different views on who should get screened and when?
- What is active surveillance for prostate cancer, who is it right for, and what does it involve?
Ulcerative colitis
All diagnosis answers for Ulcerative colitis →Von Hippel-Lindau disease
All diagnosis answers for Von Hippel-Lindau disease →- What does it mean when VHL disease is called "autosomal dominant," and why does that matter for my family?
- What does the VHL gene do, and how does a change in it lead to tumors growing throughout the body?
- What is Von Hippel-Lindau disease, and why does it cause tumors and cysts to grow in so many different places?
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