Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In this episode, a multidisciplinary panel of speakers discusses their experience and summarize the existing consensus statements for managing patients with suspected or confirmed lung cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlights of the discussion include: The impact of COVID-19 on standard of practice regarding timely diagnosis and staging Prioritization strategies related to surgery and invasive diagnostic and staging procedures Differences in radiation and systemic treatment strategies between pre-COVID and crisis times Alterations to standard treatment strategies based on existing experience and expert panel reports (Originally recorded September 3, 2020) Moderator: Septimiu D. Murgu, MD, FCCP Panelists: Jessica S. Donington, MD, MS; Jyoti Patel, MD; Andreas Rimner, MD; and Gerard A. Silvestri, MD, MS, FCCP For more tools to help in the fight against COVID-19, visit CHEST’s COVID-19 Resource Center at chestnet.org/COVID19.