And these procedures all have their own benefits, but also their own complications. So if you have an abnormality, the other thing that sets this place apart is if you call a regular hospital and say, hey, I've got a lung nodule, can I see somebody? Can you kind of talk to us a little bit about that, and walk us through that? And where this matters is, of course, if I go and prove that it's not a cancer, then rather than being cut open and proved it was not a cancer-- which is great it's not cancer, but you've been cut open. Interventional Pulmonology. They're still cutting in you. So that you get an answer as to what this nodule actually is. Now, these are complicated discussions. St. Peters Health Partners Medical Associates, P.C. And this is important. There's nobody else here. It could be cancer. Learn more about clinical trials and find a trial that might be right for you. And we keep spacing that interval of scan out if nothing has changed. Program Coordinator. His work as been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Thoracic Disease, Respiratory Medicine and American Journal of Physiology, Lung, Cell, Molecular Physiology. And you want to have something reliable in what to do next. Make sure everything looks right, that it would be safe to proceed. Hey, this nodule has a 20% chance of being cancer, which is not a number anybody wants to hear. I mean, it's really amazing. But we can. And thank you to our viewers for your great questions. Well, we're very happy to have you. What are some of the options to evaluate lung nodules and lung masses? Maybe a 3% chance of cancer is acceptable to some, and terrifying to others, and everywhere in between. Our doctors will actually even join us from the places where they're doing the work. UChicago Medicine and Ingalls Memorial offer a broad range of challenging clinical and non-clinical career opportunities doing work that really matters. And so that becomes one procedure, as opposed to multiple procedures. If you think about it, the lung is mostly air. And was fortunate enough to start the bronchoscopy program here, and the Nodule program. If you're concerned about cancer and there's an intermediate pre-test probability, based on a calculated evaluation, then we can potentially offer a blood test or something else that may potentially reduce the risk. Paper copies of the Report are available, upon request, from the University of Chicago Police Department, 850 E. 61st Street, Chicago, IL 60637. All rights reserved. And the patient goes afterwards to a post-procedural area, where they recover. We use that CAT scan, build a three dimensional map of your lungs, and we drive to the spot where that's at. And was fortunate enough to start the bronchoscopy program here, and the Nodule program.
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