CHEST Pulse

Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic


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In this episode, a multidisciplinary panel of speakers discusses their experience and summarize the existing consensus statements for managing patients with suspected or confirmed lung cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlights of the discussion include:

  • The impact of COVID-19 on standard of practice regarding timely diagnosis and staging
  • Prioritization strategies related to surgery and invasive diagnostic and staging procedures
  • Differences in radiation and systemic treatment strategies between pre-COVID and crisis times
  • Alterations to standard treatment strategies based on existing experience and expert panel reports
  • (Originally recorded September 3, 2020)

    Moderator: Septimiu D. Murgu, MD, FCCP

    Panelists: Jessica S. Donington, MD, MS; Jyoti Patel, MD; Andreas Rimner, MD; and Gerard A. Silvestri, MD, MS, FCCP

    For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.

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