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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.

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 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.