But generally speaking, a lung cancer-- when someone says to you, hey, we want to get a follow-up CAT scan, the reason they're suggesting that is that the nodule you have is so small or has characteristics that are so convincing that it's benign, that that two or three month interval that they've suggested-- if I'm wrong and it's actually a cancer, the amount that it's going to grow in that time period is so small that we've not lost anything. And as you can imagine, a place like UChicago Medicine, we've got the highest quality CT scanners. Schedule your appointment online for primary care and many specialties. And either one of you can jump on this one. So we do want to remind our viewers, we'll take your questions for our experts. . There's large databases that have been built off of the experience of radiology to be able to essentially plug-in and give a number. So I have two from viewers that I have to pass along. Patients have both benign and malignant non-cardiac diseases of the chest. And of course, you came here at kind of an odd time, during a pandemic. So there's no cutting. A lung mass can be a frightening discovery. It's OK. Because the chance it's cancer is so low, and every invasive procedure always carries a risk. And then if we do need to do a biopsy, making sure the correct biopsy gets done. Dr. Ajay Wagh and Dr. Kyle Hogarth will discuss the latest in lung nodule diagnostics, management, and treatment. All kinds of fantastic information there. And you can speak with your physician about that. So ground glass nodules are a different biology. University Pulmonary & Critical Care | UT Medical Center We offer online appointment scheduling for video and in-person appointments for adult and pediatric primary care and many specialties. Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine (DCAM) - Hyde Park, Request an Appointment at Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine (DCAM) - Hyde Park. So I want to get back to biopsies for just a moment. We can talk about imaging modalities. You will still be the same stage. Or is this something that happens and you just need to get it checked out? Interventional Pulmonology; Cystic Fibrosis; Pulmonary Vascular Disease; Pulmonary Hypertension; Hereditary Hemorrhagic . And then based on that discussion, we would set a patient up for a procedure. So Dr. Wagh and I have our partner, Dr. Mergue. For help with MyChart, call us at 1-844-442-4278. But you come in, we have a pre-procedural area where the patients get kind of their IV. The program focuses on both procedures and the procedure related management of benign and malignant thoracic diseases. And basically work very hard to make sure that patients get the answers that they need to help decide what's the best next path when they find an abnormal CT scan. So we want to-- I mean, we want to do this for everybody.

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