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Advance Pathology Services, PC is a complete anatomic laboratory. Our laboratory is located in Cadillac, Michigan. We provide daily courier service to physician offices and can handle all your histology and cytology needs. The results of your biopsies and specimens are available within 24 hours of receipt in our laboratory. We accept most insurance carriers in Michigan.
We are the only laboratory in Northern Michigan to offer NeoGenomics Laboratory's MelanoSITE test for malignant melanoma. This is a highly specific and sensitive diagnostic tool for discriminating malignant melanomas from atypical nevi. This allows for an objective evaluation of the tumors that show borderline features of malignancy or are clinically suspicious for malignancy.
What is Pathology?
Pathology is the area of medicine which deals with the diagnosis of disease. This may be done by sampling body tissues. Sometimes this involves blood tests (clinical pathology), such as when diagnosing diabetes. Other times, as with cancer, it requires sampling tissue (anatomic pathology). This sampling is called a biopsy.
 Biopsies come in many forms. The smallest of these is the sampling of individual cells with a needle of scraping. The best known example of this is the PAP smear used to screen for cervical cancers.
 Next in size are needle and core biopsies. In these biopsies a small sample of tissue is removed and viewed under the microscope. This type of sampling is used for deeper tissues were surgery is not desirable. Quite frequently the biopsy is obtained with the help of a CT scan or ultrasound. Often, this type of biopsy is preformed in conjunction with a cytology sample.
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An open biopsy is obtained by a surgeon. This involves the removal of a lesion or larger portion of tissue. The laboratory then prepares the tissue to be viewed by a