The specific details of your surgery will depend on various factors, including your cancer stage and overall health. It’s important to consult …
0:03 good morning is Marcus Garcia consultant
0:05 thoracic surgeon from London today we’re
0:08 gonna talk about the investigation that
0:11 are needed for lung cancer
0:15 most of my patients comes to me with
0:17 some form of investigation and sometimes
0:19 they are surprised when we ask for more
0:22 tests before their surgery so what are
0:25 the most common one so something that
0:28 all patients get is a CT scan and this
0:32 is a staging CT scan with contrast
0:36 you can think of a CT scan like a black
0:39 and white photograph
0:41 the next test all patients have is a pet
0:45 scan you can think of that like a color
0:48 photograph where you are injected
0:51 with a radioactive mildly radioactive
0:54 sugary dye that is captured
0:58 more by cells that are quickly
1:01 replicating then
1:04 you have a lung function test this
1:06 allows us to check how much of the lung
1:10 we can take out and whether you are
1:12 likely to be short of breath after
1:14 surgery or not
1:16 then we need to perform some tests to
1:23 could be either a city-guided biopsy
1:26 where we put a needle into the nodule
1:30 through
1:32 a CT scan guidance or we can
1:37 do a bronchoscopy
1:39 we can also do a kind of a special
1:42 bronchoscopy which is called ebus that
1:45 will allow us to sample the lymphogland
1:47 that are along the windpipe so that we
1:51 will be able to have a tissue diagnosis
1:53 to understand the type of the cancer you
1:55 got and also stage it at the same times
1:59 these are the most common tests that we
2:01 do then there can be other tests that
2:04 are specifically designed for each
2:07 individual patient to check other
2:09 situation such as their
2:12 are condition or the condition of other
2:16 organ but the main one I’ve just
2:18 mentioned so if you’ve been diagnosed
2:23 please get in touch
2:25 for an opinion or even a second opinion
2:27 if you’re not convinced that would be
2:29 more than happy to talk to you
