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- So Histopathology Technicians,

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kinda look at a lot of the
most important specimens

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that come down to the laboratory.

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As the rest of the laboratory
looks at blood, sputum,

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urine, things like that,

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Histopathology is the
study of diseased tissue.

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So any time somebody has
something like a tumor,

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a cyst, even a weird looking mole.

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When a doctor biopsies
or excises that site

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they send it to the
Histopathology Laboratory.

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We take that piece of tissue,

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we analyze it for diseases,

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we try to find,

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how serious that disease is,

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what creative cancer, things like that.

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Once we make that diagnosis,

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our pathologists will relay
that to their provider

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and we can go ahead and start a

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treatment plan for that patient.

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Without Histopathology,
it's very very difficult

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to diagnose a lot of

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serious diseases.

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The Clinical Laboratory,

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they do great work looking at

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blood, urine, fecal samples,

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and they can make a
decent diagnosis as well,

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but for things like tumor growth,

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for things like, breast cancer,

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for things like appendicitis,

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Histopathology is absolutely crucial

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for making a diagnosis like that.