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School of somethingFACULTY OF OTHER
School of HealthcareFACULTY OF MEDICINE & HEALTH
The Role of Digital Pathology in Talking to Patients about Cancer
Rebecca Randell
• Background• Histopathology/surgical pathology
• Digital pathology
• Digital microscope project
• Sharing this technology with patients• Our experiences
• Communication goals
• Relationship of technology to those goals
• Questions to explore
• Questions
Introduction
Histopathology and digital pathology
Our research
• Demonstrations to members of the public (1000+)
• Digital Pathology Patient Panel
• Interest and enthusiasm
• Cancer no longer ‘invisible’
• ‘Knowledge is power’ – helping them to come to terms with diagnosis
• Potential to help understand decisions
made in care
But where’s the patient?
• Improved perception of disease
• Increased sense of control
• Increased knowledge
• Better able to contribute to decisions about their care
• Requires research with patients to understand their expectations and experiences of receiving information about their diagnosis
What’s the communication goal?
• Leeds Virtual Microscope: walk up and use
• Digital pathology: accessibility of images
• Doesn’t require diagnostic quality resolution
How does technology address those goals?
• What is the communication goal? (qualitative)
• Does it achieve it? (experimental)
• Who should discuss these images with the patient?
• At what point in the patient pathway?
Questions to explore