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Lung Cancer

Fox Chase is Among the Best Lung Cancer Treatment Centers

As an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center, the specialists at Philadelphia's Fox Chase Cancer Center are among the nation's best, offering treatment for lung cancer, including complex cases, cancer recurrence (the cancer coming back), and inoperable lung cancer.

One of our patients: Don Cully, out splitting wood just a few weeks after minimally invasive surgery for non-small cell lung cancer.

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Patient Care Team

Your patient care team is made up of a multispecialty team of doctors:

Nurse Navigator
Caryn M. Vadseth, RN, BSN

Medical Oncology
Hossein Borghaei, DO
Scot Ebbinghaus, MD
Gregory Michael Lubiniecki, MD
Ranee Mehra, MD
Michael M Millenson, MD
Joseph Treat, MD
Kristen Kreamer, CRNP, MSN, AOCN, APRN-BC

Surgical Oncology
Walter J. Scott, MD, FACS
Prashant C Shah, MD
Donna Edmondson, MSN, CRNP, OCN

Radiation Oncology
Aruna Turaka, MD
Joshua Meyer, MD
Tiffany Tam, MD

Department of Medicine
Alan David Haber, MD, FCCP
Earl D. King, MD
Michael Unger, MD, FACP, FCCP

Advanced Practice Clinicians

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Newly Diagnosed with Lung Cancer

Determining the precise stage of your lung cancer is critical to planning the most effective treatment. Our multidisciplinary team of doctors will help you throughout the whole process of treatment. Read More »

Early Detection

For individuals at high-risk for lung cancer, Fox Chase Cancer Center offers lung cancer screening to detect the signs of lung cancer. Michael Unger, MD, an internationally recognized expert in interventional pulmonologydirects Fox Chase Cancer Center's Pulmonary Cancer Detection and Prevention Program. Read More »

Treatment Options

Depending on your type of lung cancer, treatment may include surgery, radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy. Fox Chase offers patients much more treatment options. Read More »

Risk Assessment

Cancer risk assessment looks at your personal and possible inherited genetic factors that may put you at higher possibility for getting cancer. Read More »

Radiation Treatments

Our physicians offer you the latest advancements in radiation treatment because they stay on the leading edge of discovery. ReadMore ».

Survivor Clinic

Following successful treatment for lung cancer, Fox Chase patients may be seen by an Advance Practice Clinician in the Survivor Clinic.

Clinical Trials

At Fox Chase, we've built our lung cancer program on years of translational science and clinical research.  Clinical trials are available for early-stage, locally advanced and metastatic (disease that has spred) types of small-cell lung cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer, as well as for patients with multiple primary sites and those with marginal pulmonary function.

At Fox Chase, we've built our lung cancer program on years of translational science and clinical research. Clinical trials are available for early-stage, locally advanced and metastatic (disease that has spred) types of non-small-cell lung cancer and small-cell lung cancer, as well as for patients with multiple primary sites and those with marginal pulmonary function.

Nurse Navigators

With an expanded patient navigation program, patients who become part of Fox Chase Cancer Center lung cancer treatment are offered individualized, compassionate care with a focus on wellness, stress reduction and quality of life and access to our full scope of research opportunities.
Meet Nurse Navigator Caryn M. Vadseth, RN, BSN.

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New patients can request an appointment online or call 215-214-3271.
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See National Cancer Institute information on Lung Cancer
MyBiopsy.org

MyBiopsy.org
Cancer diagnosis information for patients from the College of American Pathologists