Lung Cancer stories

Brett Grizzell, MD, FACS, medical co-director of Via Christi’s Lung Nodule Clinic, has completed his 1,000th robotic-assisted surgery for the treatment of lung cancer in Wichita, Kansas.

Lung cancer teams at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West in Nashville, TN, perform Ion robotic bronchoscopy and resection for the first time in hospital history.

Because lung cancers can be curable when discovered while still small and localized, Ascension Via Christi invested in a robotic-assisted platform that can locate and reach nodules as small as 8 millimeters.

Doctors at the Ascension Via Christi Lung Nodule Clinic in Wichita, KS, helped find and treat lung cancer quickly because of a lung cancer screening.

Lung cancer, when discovered while still small and localized, can be curable, which is why Ascension Via Christi is investing in new lung cancer programs, services and technology, such as its new robotic-assisted platform that can locate and reach nodules as small as 8 millimeters.

Ascension Via Christi is investing in new programs and services to help find lung cancers at its earliest stages and then get treatment started within seven to 14 days.