Episode Synopsis "A Time to Be Hopeful: How lung cancer screening and new treatments are improving lung cancer care "

Michael Liptay, MD, chair of thoracic surgery at Rush along with Linda Dowling, RN, the lung cancer screening program nurse coordinator, talk to medical oncologist Shikha Jain, MD, Physician Director of Media for the Rush University Cancer Center. The three discuss how lung cancer screening can help catch lung cancer earlier, when it is most curable, and innovative treatments providing more hope for people diagnosed with lung cancer.

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