HEALTH + WELLNESS McLeod Pulmonologist Dr. Vinod Jona is pictured with the SPiN Thoracic Navigation System in the McLeod Endoscopy Lab.
NAVIGATING TO EARLIER DETECTION OF LUNG CANCER with SPiN Thoracic Navigation System story by Vinod Jona, MD, McLeod Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates
Building on the success of its Lung Cancer Screening program, the McLeod Health team has been detecting lung cancer earlier and saving lives through low-dose CT scans for more than seven years. Since that time the cancer team has expanded the program to include four dedicated nurse navigators, a lung nodule clinic and patient conferences with multiple specialists. Now, the addition of innovative early detection technology is enabling the team to precisely track and diagnose lung cancer in its earliest stages with electromagnetic navigation. This new technology revolutionizes the speed and accuracy with which lung cancer can be diagnosed, allowing for treatment to begin sooner. Offered at McLeod Regional Medical Center and McLeod Health Seacoast, the SPiN Thoracic Navigation System provides electromagnetic navigation and guidance to distant regions of the lungs in a minimally invasive outpatient procedure, enabling McLeod Health Pulmonologists to locate, biopsy and plan treatment for lung nodules that were previously difficult to access with traditional technology. The McLeod team is utilizing the system to act sooner and not wait for nodules to grow before they are biopsied.
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VIPMagSC.com
August 2022
