Report highlighter
Paste the text of a pathology, radiology or lab report. We highlight each word or score we have a plain-language page for, such as margins, Ki-67, BI-RADS 4A, PI-RADS 3 or Gleason 4+3=7, and list them with a one-line summary and a link.
This explains words, not your result. The same term can mean different things for different people. It cannot tell you what your report means for you, how serious a finding is, or what to do next. Ask your care team to go through your report with you.
If something feels urgent right now, call your care team or 911 (US). Don’t wait on a web tool. When is it an emergency?
Your report text stays on this device. The highlighting runs in your browser. What you paste is not sent to us or anyone else, is not saved, and is not counted by analytics. Closing or reloading the page clears it.
Works with pathology, radiology and lab reports. You can remove your name, dates and record numbers first; the tool does not need them.
My saved terms
Kept only in this browser on this device, so you can find the pages again or bring the words to your next appointment. Only the term and its page are saved, never your report text. Anyone using this browser can see the list.
Nothing saved yet. Use “Save term” on a found term or on any report-terms page.
Take your questions to your care team
Save the terms you want to ask about, then turn them into a question list for your next visit.
How this page was created
Cancer Explained does not originate medical claims. Every page restates guidance already published by the National Cancer Institute, the CDC, the USPSTF and the FDA, in plain language, with the source cited so you can check the original yourself. AI does the translating and organizing; automated checks test claims, citations, clarity and safety before anything publishes, and this is translation and navigation, not clinical judgment. Nothing here is personal medical advice, and no page can account for your particular situation.
Editorial status: Source checked — This page was written with AI assistance and then compared with the sources listed on it, looking for statements those sources do not back up. That check is not a sentence-by-sentence record and can miss errors. It is not a medical review, and it does not confirm the page is complete or right for your situation.
Human medical review: not completed. Pages here are not signed off by a clinician before they publish. That is not an oversight we are quietly working around: we restate published guidance and cite it, so the authority belongs to the source rather than to us, and every page names where its claims come from — you can verify us instead of trusting us. Where a volunteer clinician has reviewed a page, their name and credentials appear on it; where no name appears, no clinician has checked it. We are glad to have reviewers and are recruiting them, and we do not hold pages back waiting for one. Use this site to understand your situation and to ask better questions of the people treating you.
Read more about our editorial process, our use of AI, and our corrections policy.
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