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.

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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 care providers will help you throughout the whole process of treatment.
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Lung Screening / Early Detection

New! Low-Dose CT Scan Screening Service
for Lung Cancer

For individuals at high-risk for lung cancer, Fox Chase Cancer Center offers lung cancer screening to detect the signs of lung cancer. New technology allows less invasive diagnostic lung procedures. Read More »

Treatment Options

Patient Care Team

Your patient care is provided by a multispecialty team:

Nurse Navigator
Caryn M. Vadseth, RN, BSN, OCN

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

Thoracic Surgery
Walter J. Scott, MD, FACS
Prashant C Shah, MD
Stacy Su, MD
Donna Edmondson, MSN, CRNP, OCN
Matthew J Faber, PA-C, MS

Radiation Oncology
Aruna Turaka, 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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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.

Depending on your type of lung cancer, treatment may include surgery, radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy. Fox Chase offers patients a personalized approach including molecular testing for decision making. Read More »

Radiation Treatment for Lung Cancer

Our physicians offer you the latest advancements in radiation treatment including intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). Read More »

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 spread) 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.
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Survivor Clinic

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

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 »

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Together Facing Lung Cancer

An event designed to help patients and caregivers find emotional support and information as they face lung cancer and its treatments.
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