A New Category of Care: A Practitioner's Guide to Proactive, Noninvasive Screening of Lumps & Bumps

Course overview

In this 1-hour lecture, Dr. Natalie Marks will discuss why early disease detection is vital for the best patient outcomes. Although most clinicians would agree with this tenet, more than half of dermal and subcutaneous masses in dogs go undiagnosed mainly due to the cost and invasiveness of traditional tests. This lecture will discuss how a noninvasive cancer screening tool using heat diffusion imaging can safely screen dermal and subcutaneous masses and is being developed to diagnose and identify malignancies like mast cell tumors. Dr. Marks will also review how this technology does not compete with traditional strategies like fine-needle aspiration, biopsy, and/or surgery but instead helps reinforce the need for these clinically indicated tests. The lecture will finish with a deeper dive into the technology itself, its accuracy, and workflow implementation.