Week 6- Zuzanna

This week in the clinic I saw some patient that I had seen previously that were following up on their consultations and coming in for treatments, so it is interesting to see the process of cancer treatments and observe the patient's journeys, from starting treatment and also following up on just how they are feeling post-treatments- one patient had to pause treatment for a while as chemo was causing too much exhaustion. In the OR I observed a bladder resection and reconstruction, and I think that was the most complex surgery I have thus far seen. The patient had been on chemo for bladder cancer and as a precautionary measure it is standard to follow with the removal of the bladder- I had heard of this in clinic but many patients receive a bag in place of the bladder- I did not realize they can also construct a new bladder using the colon and appendix. First they robotically removed the bladder, and then cut open into the patient to construct another bladder. There was a lot of moving parts- simply put, they cut the colon in half and attach part of it to the appendix, while repositioning the urethra there and sewing the remaining colon back to allow it to function properly.

In lab I have been do some more image analysis on some cocultured methods for organoids, and trying light sheet microscopy to image those organoids.