Lung Cancer
Lung nodules, screening, causes, early detection and minimally invasive lung surgery — explained by a thoracic surgeon.
Lung cancer condition page →Your lung cancer has been removed. What happens in follow-up?
How often you need a CT after lung cancer surgery, why follow-up lasts for life, and when scans are more frequent.
Read the article In the newsLung cancer in people who never smoked: EGFR, ALK and what Pope Leo’s diagnosis highlights
Why never-smokers get lung cancer, the EGFR and ALK driver mutations, brain spread, and targeted drugs such as osimertinib.
Read the article Treatment optionsLung cancer treatment by stage: what the stages mean, and where surgery fits
Small cell vs non-small cell, stages I to IV, survival, and when keyhole or robotic surgery offers the best chance of cure.
Read the article Screening & early detectionLung cancer screening in Ontario: how far we’ve come
From a program I started in 2014 to today’s province-wide screening — why catching lung cancer early changes everything, and where screening is heading next.
Read the article Causes & riskWhat causes lung cancer?
Almost everyone asks: what caused it? Smoking, asbestos, radon, never-smokers and inherited genes — what raises the risk, and what you can actually do about it.
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