This week I shadowed in clinic and it was a little more busy than previous weeks so it was interesting to see a wider range of patients. I saw patients who were finishing up therapies, and also patients who needed to switch to another one due to their circumstances. I learned its quite hard to treat immunocompromised patients, like those with transplants and immunosuppressents, especially using a lot of systemic cancer treatments like immunotherapy, as it can have extra side effects relating to that immunosuppression. I also saw a partial nephrectomy, where a tumor was removed off a kidney. It's interesting that one can function without an entire kidney. Additionally, I was able to observe a robotic prostatectomy which was very interesting as I did not realize how huge the robot is. The actual robotic surgical tools are tiny, and its crazy how much they are able to maneuver inside a patient with the few small incisions needed to place the tools. Watching everything on a screen was fascinating as they were inside the patient with a camera, and I could barely see the patient under that robot, but could see all the details of the maneuvers.
In lab I have further been working on methods to image an organoid system, and also doing some research on an in vitro model to improve Tcell survival, as Tcells usually cannot survive for longer than 2 weeks in vitro, but our lab has some longer treatment models of interest.
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