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Episode: Community Practice Perspectives: Overcoming Barriers in Small Cell Lung Cancer Care: With Misty D. Shields, MD, PhD
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In today’s episode, we spoke with Misty D. Shields, MD, PhD, about the realities of treating patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) in the community setting and how emerging therapies are shaping care delivery. Dr Shields is a translational medical oncologist at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis. In our exclusive interview, Dr Shields highlighted the urgency associated with SCLC treatment, an aggressive malignancy that often presents with rapid symptom onset and widespread metastases. The conversation also underscored the importance of multidisciplinary care. This approach is especially critical in light of expanded treatment options such as che...