00:00The robotic ion device allows us to sample tissue.
00:05From the lungs with extreme precision, this can be done in a quick 30 minutes.
00:10Procedure under general anaesthetic.
00:12And for patients what this means is hard to reach.
00:15Modules, which previously couldn't be biopsied, can now be accessed.
00:20This is part of a redesign of the entire lung cancer pathway at the front end of it.
00:25So instead of delays and repeated transitions between...
00:30...hospitals and teams, patients will be entering a fast, streamlined, nurse-led...
00:35...pathway, which is specifically designed and tailored to meet their needs.
00:39What that means is patients...
00:40...get the answers that they need quicker.
00:42And crucially, they can get into life-saving treatment faster.
00:45This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us to use...
00:50...the technology as a disruptive piece of technology to change the pathway.
00:54And where we...
00:55...designing it with patients and for patients.
00:58So what we've seen before...
01:00...is that patients enter the pathway with a lot of anxiety...
01:05...and they face quite long delays to get the answers that they need.
01:10But this technology is going to enable us to change that...
01:13...so that the patients have...
01:15...fewer appointments, less waiting, clearer communication and care that is...
01:20...specifically tailored to them.
01:21The primary difference in treatment is that patients previously...
01:25...with small cancers that were either hard to reach...
01:27...or below a threshold in size.
01:30...have faced long waits.
01:31That was a lot of uncertainty and anxiety...
01:33...but it also meant that there was time...
01:35...for the cancer to progress.
01:36Now, through the AI technology that we're applying...
01:39...we can...
01:40...risk stratify those small nodules so that we can target the patients...
01:43...who need a biopsy and they can...
01:45...have a quick simple procedure to find out early on...
01:48...even if their cancer is as small as a...
01:50...the brain of rice, whether this is a cancer.
01:52And what that means is they can get treatment earlier...
01:55...and they can have a better chance of surviving their lung cancer.
01:58What we're seeing is...
02:00...lung cancer screening introduced a big paradigm shift.
02:03The lung cancer screening program...
02:05...in Southeast London has identified 75% in early stage.
02:09There are...
02:10...very effective treatments for early stage cancer.
02:13They primarily relate to...
02:15...saber, which is laser radiotherapy...
02:17...or keyhole surgery, often done by...
02:20...a robotic assisted surgery.
02:23And so what this means for patients is...
02:25...while the cancer is still in the earliest possible stages...
02:28...they can access those treatments and...
02:30...and as our patients will tell you...
02:31...what that means is quicker recovery...
02:33...back to the things that they love...
02:34...and a...
02:35...a better chance of...
02:36...longer term survival.
02:37So a few months ago...
02:39...I had a pain of...
02:40...and my left leg...
02:41...didn't know what it was...
02:43...so I went to my doctor.
02:45My doctor diagnosed it as deep vein thrombosis...
02:48...and...
02:49...so...
02:50...suggested that I go to...
02:51...Guys Hospital for...
02:53...treatment.
02:55When arriving at guys...
02:56...the doctor looked at it...
02:57...examined it...
02:58...looked at it...
02:59...but...
03:00...he wasn't sure what caused it...
03:02...as I'm relatively healthy...
03:04...and never had any...
03:05...ailements like that before.
03:07So he recommended some...
03:09...further tests.
03:10I came back to guys...
03:12...and had those tests...
03:13...and...
03:14...unfortunately...
03:15...the doctor said...
03:17...that they suspect...
03:18...something...
03:19...but they weren't sure.
03:20...or...
03:21...suspect it could be cancer...
03:22...but I'm not sure...
03:23...and they suggested...
03:24...the bronchonosis...
03:25...we did that...
03:27...I think I was in...
03:28...in the morning...
03:29...and out...
03:30...in the afternoon...
03:32...uh...
03:33...I was called back...
03:34...I think...
03:35...a few days after...
03:36...and...
03:37...the doctor said...
03:38...indeed...
03:39...they discovered...
03:40...cancer on the lung...
03:42...so...
03:43...he...
03:44...the surgeon...
03:45...was actually...
03:45...going to do the operation...
03:46...explained to me...
03:47...that...
03:48...there's a number of ways...
03:49...that...
03:50...that we can...
03:51...treat the cancer...
03:52...for...
03:53...f...
03:54...fortunately...
03:55...it's at stage one...
03:55not stage four, but we can treat it with removal, chemotherapy.
04:00And there was the other option which I sort of blanked out because my mind is the set to.
04:05I felt absolutely fantastic.
04:08The only thing that grites me a little.
04:10As my doctor said, because I usually go badminton on a Sunday.
04:15I'm not going to be missing that because he says, no, you've got to wait for you to heal before you go badminton again.
04:19So I said.
04:20Fine.
04:21And that's the only thing I miss.
04:22Other than that, I'm grateful to be alive.
04:25There's a little bit of aching there, but if that's the price I've got to pay for.
04:30Life saving, potentially life saving operation.
04:33It's fine.
04:34My message.
04:35If you drive a car, you have an annual MRT.
04:39If you drive.
04:40We should all look to our annual checkup at our doctors.
04:44Even if.
04:45If we have no symptoms of anything, just go for a check because you'll never ever know.
04:50Or you can never ever be sure what's happening inside your body.
04:54So it would be.
04:55Have an annual checkup.
04:56Have an annual checkup.
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