U.S., June 28 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07040514) titled '24GUT540 : Meeting of Breast Cancer Patients and Pathologists' on May 12.
Brief Summary: Historically, most pathologists have had little direct contact or communication with patients. In the past two decades, however, there has been a modest movement toward patient-pathologist visits in which pathologists review with patients their pathology slides.
Very few studies of such encounters have been conducted. Most surveyed patients reported that the experience was positive and helpful to them. Our basic goal is to determine if such meetings are useful to patients; a secondary goal is to determine if such encounters are useful to, and p...