Dr. Josephine Taverna, a lung oncologist with UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center, joined leading SA to discuss the issue in our community and diagnosis.
– One in 16 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in their lifetime. It is the leading cause of cancer death and the second most common cancer in the U.S.
“Now, because of the COVID pandemic, we’re picking up more and more lung cancer because of a lot of the CT scans that we’re doing in the hospital or in the outpatient clinic. They usually present as nodules, and sometimes they are advanced. They go to the lymph nodes. The majority of my patients are smokers. They smoke a pack a day for 30 years or more. Those patients are most at risk. But moderate smokers, as well as light smokers, should still discuss CT scans with their primary care doctor.
Even if you get screened, and it shows advanced stages of the disease, there are still treatments available. “We now know that the immune system is a huge component and what helps us fight cancer every day in normal and in patients without cancer. So with the advent of immunotherapy, we’re actually seeing the survival of lung cancer patients with stage four disease patients who’ve had their lung cancer spread beyond the lung to other parts through the bloodstream. We’ve actually improved survival from 5% survival at five years to 25% survival within five years.
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