The Cancer Search Bar: Understanding Lung Cancer, Staging and Treatment

In this episode of The Cancer Search Bar, Dr. Chinmay Jani, Chief Fellow of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Miami and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, answers five common questions patients are asking about lung cancer. He explains what the different stages of lung cancer mean, why smoking is not the only risk factor, how people with advanced lung cancer can live for years, and why biomarker testing has become such an important part of treatment decisions. Dr. Jani also discusses how advances in precision medicine have transformed lung cancer treatment over the past decade and what patients should know when talking with their care teams.