VIDEO: Role of pulmonologist in post-treatment monitoring for lung cancer

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Let's say we go out to a nodule, we biopsy it, and we find out it's just old scar tissue. Then we don't have to follow you. Let's say we go out, and we actually find lung cancer. At that point in time because you have a primary lung cancer, your risk of a recurrence of lung cancer or that lung cancer recurring itself are higher than a normal person would be. What that means is really at least once a year for the rest of your life, we'll be involved monitoring you.