Breast Cancer Diagnosis: DOCTOR Shadows a PATHOLOGY ASSISTANT



Pathology is like the CSI of medicine… where they search for health criminals like bacterial and cancer. This fascinating work happens on a microscopic level! Have you ever wondered why it takes so long to get your biopsy results? Join me in the pathology lab to find out exactly what happens when a specimen is delivered from the operating room.

HUGE thank you to Janice, Cristina, Dr. Salehi, the pathology department and the medical lab technologists for making this video possible!

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📚 References:
– American breast cancer screening guidelines: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/breast-cancer/screening-tests-and-early-detection/american-cancer-society-recommendations-for-the-early-detection-of-breast-cancer.html
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📸 Image Credits:
– By BruceBlaus. Blausen.com staff (2014). Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014; DOI:10.15347/wjm/2014.010. Wiki commons.

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22 thoughts on “Breast Cancer Diagnosis: DOCTOR Shadows a PATHOLOGY ASSISTANT”

  1. I just decided to become a Pharmacy Tech. I was going to be an OTA, but a variety of factors made me drop that course (some of them were the testing set up. ugh). in my area, Pharmacy Technician requires only an online, at-your-own pace course, and of course an exam for certification.

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  2. This was a really comforting video. I lost my mom to inflammatory breast cancer. It is rare, hard to detect, and extremely aggressive. There is also very little known about it, because it is so uncommon. I will be vigilant in regular screenings as we have no idea if there is a genetic risk factor

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  3. They make it look so easy! I made some slides of plant tissue in college lab and it takes a lot of math & fine motor skills. My spouse had a brain tumor removed and I knew that he agreed to have the tissue preserved for future research. It's so cool to know what happened to it after it was removed.

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  4. Thank you for this – I had a partial mastectomy last year and they put 3 of those rods into me. Luckily my lymph nodes were far away from the area. My surgery was successful in that there were clean edges all around the tissue. I also had 20 radiation treatments after and I have just recently met with plastic surgery who will reduce my other breast to the size of the one that was operated on. I’ve also had 2 clean mammograms since.
    I am 54 and I had had 2 prior mammograms with no indications. One day I just thought to myself…it’s been a while since I’ve had a mammogram – I should get one – out of the blue. Don’t ignore what your body tells you!
    Oh – and I’m Canadian so all I paid for was a % of my pain meds for after the surgery – that’s it. ❤

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  5. im currently studying to become a lab technologist (and literally just finished the histopathology block) so it was really interesting to watch this and recognise so much of what we’re learning.

    I also appreciate that you took the time to show everything going on inside the lab bc it’s often overlooked and a lot of people don’t realise how much work are actually going on "behind the scenes" in hospitals

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  6. I don't know if you, as an IM doctor, treats this, but I'd like you to explain Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). My dad's was cured in 5 minutes. A staff at my care home has been sick for weeks from it.

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