Emily Cassidy, MD

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Lung Cancer – Pleural Effusion & Pleurodesis

There may be a recommendation for an operation called a pleurodesis or a pleural catheter insertion. A pleurodesis is when the fluid is all drained off of the lung in the operating room typically. And...

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Lung Cancer – Signs & Symptoms

Most lung cancers are asymptomatic, particularly at their earlier stages. However, depending on the location and how advanced the tumor is at the time of diagnosis, it can present with symptoms of chest pain, shortness...

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Lung Cancer – Who Can Perform Lung Surgery?

A thoracic surgeon is a surgeon that has typically undergone five years of general surgery residency followed by specialty training in cardiothoracic. That’s typically an additional two or three year fellowship in addition to the...

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Lung Cancer – Types

There are several types of lung cancer, but to simplify things, we broadly group them into two groups, which is small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer, which is sort of everything else....

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Lung Cancer – Who gets lung cancer?

One of the hurdles that we face when treating, discussing, dealing at all with lung cancer, is the innate stigma that exists with regard to lung cancer because of the strong correlation with cigarette smoking....

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Lung Cancer – Surgery in the OR

When we do lung surgery, because there’s no empty space in the chest, all of the space is taken up by the lungs, the heart, the blood vessels, we have to deflate the lung on...

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Lung Cancer – Surgical Risks

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Lung Cancer – Pleural Effusion Causes and Diagnosis

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Lung Cancer – Low Dose CT Screening for Lung Cancer

Most recently, the United States Preventative Task Force has put out recommendations to broaden the indications for low dose CT screening for lung cancer. So they’ve widened the age range from 55 to 74 all...

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Lung Cancer – After Surgery