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So today, joining Brian and myself, not actually in the studio, we've been relegated to actually Brian's office.

Interesting, unique experience for all of us, really.

So today is Charlotte Johnson, one of our lecturers in oncology, joining us today. So thank you very much, Charlotte, for joining us.

Very welcome. Good morning. Good morning, yeah. And say, I suppose what we were going to talk to you

about is sort of maximising your diagnostics that you can really in practice or just in general to get an oncological

diagnosis.

So I suppose that we were just having a bit before that the when the mics were clay is about

how we go about this.

So if you if you suspect a patient has a mass, are you going to stick a needle in it regardless?

Is that where we're going to?

Yeah, I mean, certainly often our first line of diagnostics here in oncology is to do a fine needle aspirate.

You know, there are sometimes that maybe we skip that step or we do something slightly different, but the majority of cases

we can gain quite a lot of information from doing that. It's a fairly straightforward,

quick procedure to do. It's very minimally invasive for the patient, and also from an owner's

perspective, you know, financially compared to some of our other diagnostics

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