Sunday Nov 21, 2021
Mythbusting LCS Eligibility: Impact of COVID on Lung Cancer Screening (Part 5)
*This episode was originally part of the ACR Bulletin podcast and was recorded in Fall 2020. For the most up to date COVID-19 guidelines, please contact your local screening center.
Dr. Debra Dyer, MD, finishes her conversation with Dr. Patricia Rivera, MD, with a discussion on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lung cancer screening.
As part of National Lung Cancer Awareness Month 2020, Dr. Debra Dyer, Chair of the ACR’s Lung Cancer Screening Steering Committee, had a series of conversations with stakeholders across the healthcare spectrum about myths in lung screening in the limited series “Mythbusting Lung Cancer Screening.”
Dr. Patricia Rivera is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Rivera currently serve as Co-Director of the Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program and Director of the Lung Cancer Screening Program at UNC. She serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Thoracic Society and will serve as President of ATS in 2023. She is a member of the National Lung Cancer Roundtable and serves as Vice-Chair of the Lung Cancer in Women and the Biomarker Task Forces.
Additional information on this topic, as well as the resources mentioned during the episode, can be found at https://www.acr.org/Clinical-Resources/Lung-Cancer-Screening-Resources.
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