UChicago Medicine experts Dr. Ajay Wagh and Dr. D. Kyle Hogarth Director of Bronchoscopy and Co-Director of our Lung Cancer Screening Program discuss the latest in lung nodule diagnostics, management and treatment.
Table of Contents
0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:57 What are nodules and masses, and how do people know that they have them in their lungs?
0:04:18 Should I panic if I have a nodule?
0:05:52 How do you work with the patients?
0:07:38 Why is not smoking more important now than ever?
0:10:17 How quickly do cancerous lung nodules grow compared to other types of cancer? And how urgently must patients act?
0:11:26 What are some of the options to evaluate lung nodules and lung masses?
0:14:13 How invasive is a lung biopsy?
0:16:14 How minimal actually is the procedure?
0:17:48 What are lymph nodes and why are they important?
0:19:33 Can an 11 millimeter nodule be biopsied by that bronchoscope method through the throat?
0:20:44 Is following a nodule ground glass opacity with yearly CT standard? When there are no changes from scan to scan.
0:22:47 What can people expect before, during, and after one of these procedures?
0:24:28 Would my annual low dose CT lung cancer screening show nodules? Or does it have to be a higher dose CT screening?
0:26:30 What is the process for screening for lung cancer in general, and what people need to know?
0:27:15 Is the evaluation and procedure that we've been talking about, is that covered by insurance as well?
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