VIDEO: Pulmonologist perspective in detecting EGFR-lung cancer

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There's two main roles. If you're a patient and you're coming in and you hear the term lung nodule, my job is to one, define what that lung nodule is on a CAT scan, on a PET scan. All these are is just an image. It doesn't really tell you what something's made of, so my job is to work my way through the lung, biopsy the nodule, get a piece of it, hand it to the pathologist, and let you understand what that nodule is actually made of. The other part is to help stage you. Let's say we're unlucky enough that we biopsy that nodule and it actually ends up being a cancer and primary lung cancer. I also look between the lungs where cancers tend to metastasize to first or travel to first. And at that point in time, I can help determine the stage one, two, three, or four, but that's my primary role when you first meet me.