At the Lung Cancer Evaluation Center (LCEC), we provide a multidisciplinary approach to lung cancer and complex airway diseases, offering a wide array of advanced diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
Interventional Pulmonary Procedures
Advanced Diagnostic Techniques
- Flexible bronchoscopy
- Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy
- Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA)
Advanced Therapeutic Interventional Procedures
- Airway stenting (metallic stents and silastic stents)
- Tumor debulking
- Brachytherapy
- Rigid bronchoscopy
- Balloon dilation
- Electrocautery
- Laser therapy
- Foreign body removal
- Microdebridement
- Pleuroscopy
- PleurX® catheter placement and management
The LCEC evaluates patients in all stages of lung cancer, as well as patients with complex airway diseases.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE INCLUDE:
- Management of pulmonary nodules
- Diagnosis, staging and treatment of lung cancer
- Evaluation for lung cancer screening
- Mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy
- Management of malignant pleural effusions
- Foreign body removal
- Tracheal stenosis
- Tracheobronchial malacia
- Tracheoesophageal fistulas
- Post-surgical bronchopleural fistula