Professor Jean Abraham, who co-leads the hospital’s Personalised Breast Cancer Programme, and mother of three Annabelle, will be seen meeting up to see whether a breast tumour has reduced in size following chemotherapy.
But for Annabelle and Professor Abraham this will be no ordinary day – since they are meeting at an immersive imaging centre where, using real scans, they will see a replica of the tumour 3D floating in front of their eyes in 3D.
Annabelle was eight months pregnant with her third child when she found a lump. Doctors wanted to start treatment, so the decision was made to induce and deliver Annabelle’s baby.
Viewers will also meet Tina, an adventure-loving mother whose lifestyle has been seriously curtailed because of a problem in her spine
The BBC 2 programme, called Your Body Uncovered with Kate Garraway, is the latest in a series that uses augmented reality – a technology that superimposes computer-generated images into real view.
Hosted by Kate, the series features other patients examining parts of their bodies that look so real it is as if they could reach out and touch them.
Another expert from Addenbrooke’s, consultant interventional neuroradiologist Dr Yogish Joshi, is due to appear in the series at 8pm on Wednesday 6 April.