UChicago Medicine experts Dr. Ajay Wagh and Dr. D. Kyle Hogarth Director of Bronchoscopy and CoDirector 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?