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Podcast: Mayo Clinic Talks
Episode: Lung Cancer Screening
Description: Guest: Sebastian Fernandez-Bussy, M.D.
Host: Darryl S. Chutka, M.D. (@ChutkaMD)
Lung cancer is the second most common malignancy in both men and women. Survival rates depend on how early the cancer is discovered, with a survival rate much higher in localized disease than for patients with distant metastases. Therefore, an early diagnosis becomes extremely important. One of the problems with early diagnosis is that until recently, we’ve not had an effective screening test for lung cancer. In this podcast, we’ll be speaking with Sebastian Fernandez-Bussy, M.D., an Interventional Pulmonologist from the D...