Join Dr Matt Clarke to hear about the advances in genomic testing and how this is helping improve the accuracy of diagnoses in pathology

Pathology is one of the most cutting-edge and fast-paced specialties in all of healthcare. We are now in the era of molecular pathology and each year, there are significant advances in our understanding of the different mechanisms of disease and in particular, the genetic features. Genomic testing has had a considerable impact by helping to improve the accuracy of our diagnoses, and ultimately benefit our patients. In this webinar you will hear about some of these significant advances!
 
You will hear a summary of the genetic changes underlying disease, and learn about the variety of different errors or mistakes that can happen to different parts of our genome. You will hear about some of the different molecular tests that pathologists and scientists have in their tool kits to identify these genomic changes, when and how we use them, and what they can tell us about particular diseases, including cancer.
 
We will also discuss why it is so important to identify the genetic changes underlying different diseases in terms of how we target these changes with existing treatments, but also how this can be useful for drug development, and the benefits of such data for research to support further advances.
 
This webinar will be delivered by Dr Matt Clarke who is a senior specialty registrar in diagnostic neuropathology and the RCPath lead for foundation and undergraduate pathology; during the talk, he will use his experience of using molecular testing in the diagnosis of brain tumours and will show you some cases where it has made a huge difference to the outcome for patients.