A New Category of Care: A Practitioner's Guide to Proactive, Non-Invasive Screening of Lumps and Bumps

Course overview

In this one-hour lecture, Dr. Natalie Marks will discuss why early disease detection is vital for the best pet outcomes. While 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 non-invasive cancer screening tool using heat diffusion imaging and artificial intelligence can screen dermal and subcutaneous masses safely. It will also discuss how this technology does not compete with traditional strategies like FNA, biopsy, 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