How long for biopsy and Mri results

Welcome to HW. Sounds like a bit of a problem at the doctor's office. You should have been told that information before you went home.

Normally results are normally available in a few days to a week or two depending on the hospital/lab.

You may want to call the doctor's office and ask.

Andrew

With respect to imaging, it depends. While many providers use MyChart or a patient portal to provide patient access to test and imaging results, it is common for some imaging providers to provide the results to the referring provider first and delay the release to the patient. They do this to allow the referring provider an opportunity to view the results first and then communicate with the patient. If the imaging provider does not have a patient portal, it is common that the report is sent to the referring provider who is then responsible for following up with the patient.

Typically, I would expect a scan to be read and a report prepared within 24 hours (unless the scan was performed late Friday or over a weekend - in which case some imaging providers would complete a report on the following Monday for a non-stat case).

I have typically had my own MRI report and images available on the patient portal within 24 hours (sometimes the same day). My biopsy results typically took 7-10 days and were communicated by phone and fax.

When I had my biopsy my Urologist's nurse told me that she would give me a call with the results (good or bad) as soon as they got them from the pathologist. I was also told it would take 7 - 10 business days but it actually only took two days.

I would expect that the urologist will provide the results from the imaging and biopsy when your partner meets with him or her. That is still a common approach to passing on the information to a patient (so the results can be explained), although patients are frequently demanding quicker and direct access to their health care information. In the US, having a patient portal that one accesses through the internet has become common and test results are usually reported there (although, as I mentioned in my earlier post, some providers delay posting to the patient portal so that the referring physician has an earlier opportunity to see the report).

That's unfortunate that the urologist was so unhelpful. Your partner should ask for a copy of the results (on paper), not just be told them by the physician. Offer to wait if you must. While things maybe somewhat different in the NHS, I expect that there should be written reports for both imaging and the biopsy. Don't necessarily trust your physician, no matter how good they are, to fully verbally communicate all the details to you. Unfortunately, I expect that in the NHS, like here, patients need to advocate for themselves - don't be afraid to be politely insistent about getting information you need. BTW, I am saying this as someone whose spouse is a physician.

For perspective, I had a follow up mpMRI scan performed yesterday. Done at 3:00 pm. I had a copy of my report (and the images if I wished to view them) by 1:00 pm today via internet portal. They have been printed off and added to my file. Nothing alarming, so I expect I will have a chat with my urologist about them in the next 3 or 4 weeks. Would that the rest of the world (and my life) worked that efficiently.

My partner got his results only this week, he says he is all clear for cancer, but still being admitted very quickly,like next Tuesday,[for prostate shave
Still not convinced he is telling me everything

Thanks all for replies, but yet another problem as cropped up, after his prostate shave, he suddenly started losing a lot of blood,and passed out, eventually went home, and seemed to be recovering well,After about a week was called back to be told they had rechecked his MRI after biopsying the tissue from his prostate shave,now he has to have another biopsy, but a different kind that cant be done at our local hospital, also mention was made of lymph nodes,he was told if he needed an operation it would mean yet another hospital miles away
Would anyone here know anything about a different kind of biopsy, maybe a more intricate one
Thanks in advance