VIDEO: Important for pulmonologists to stay up to date on lung cancer treatments

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As far as lung cancer treatment, when you actually evaluate a nodule, determine that it's cancer, figure out what the mutations are, and then start down a line of therapy, really it's important to understand what the side effects of those therapies are. And not a lot, but 5% of the patients, when you start certain chemotherapeutic regimens, it can cause inflammation in the lungs. We call that pneumonitis, itis meaning inflammation, pneumo meaning lung. We just kind of put those together. So, we need to know which regimens can cause inflammation in the lungs or other parts of the body.