Through its new Lung Cancer Screening Program, Henry Mayo Newhall
Hospital’s goal is to screen patients at risk and diagnose lung cancer
in the early stages. Early stage detection improves lung cancer
treatment options and survival.
Under the Medicare-approved criteria, patients are eligible for lung
cancer screening if they are between the ages of 55 and 74, have at
least a 30-pack year history of smoking, are currently smoking, or have
quit smoking for less than 15 years.
If an abnormality is detected through screening, Henry Mayo’s
multi-disciplinary team of cancer specialists will determine if the
patient has lung cancer utilizing diagnostic biopsy techniques including
endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS); electromagnetic navigation
bronchoscopy; CT-guided biopsy (percutaneous); and video-assisted
thoracoscopic surgery (VATS biopsy).
“Our team will determine if the patient has cancer and at what stage
of cancer they’re in,” said Mike Collins, Director of Interventional
Pulmonology at Henry Mayo. “We will then provide patients with treatment
options based on best practices. These treatments include chemotherapy,
radiation therapy, surgery and photodynamic therapy.”
To learn more, call (661)200-1343.
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