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Paula Ugalde, WCLC 2021: Screening, Incidental Nodules, and Adjuvant Therapy for Early-Stage Lung Cancer

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Published Online: Oct 7th 2021

touchONCOLOGY joins Dr Paula Ugalde (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) at WCLC 2021 to discuss her presentation on screening, incidental nodules and adjuvant therapy for early-stage lung cancer.

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1. Early detection of lung cancer improves disease outcomes – when and in which patients do you perform screening? (00:15-00:46)
2. How often do you encounter incidental lung nodules? (00:46-01:22)
3. Please can you outline your approach to the management of patients with incidental nodules? (01:22-02:16)
4. What is the role of adjuvant therapy for early-stage lung cancer? (02:16-03:20)
5. What unmet needs remain in the detection and treatment of early-stage lung cancer? (03:20-04:50)

Disclosures: Paula Ugalde has no financial or non-financial conflicts of interest to declare in relation to this video.

Support: Interview and filming supported by Touch Medical Media. Interview conducted by Sophie Nickelson.

Filmed in coverage of the 2021 WCLC Annual Meeting.

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