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When a patient shows up in our thoracic surgery office at University Thoracic Surgeons, they’re
often facing the most difficult health issue of their life. I think the thing that we’re
blessed with is a team of committed individuals that recognize that and handle the patients
with a great deal of empathy and care. And what we’re able to demonstrate to them is
that they found in us a partner in fighting this.
Lung cancer was really thought to — and still does in some cases — carry a very
grave prognosis. That said, if it’s caught early enough — which we’re doing much
more these days — operating — often with minimally invasive techniques — allows the
patients to begin with a very frightening diagnosis and come out at the other end cured.