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.