UChicago Medicine experts Dr. Ajay Wagh and Dr. D. Kyle Hogarth Director of Bronchoscopy and Co-Director of our Lung Cancer Screening Program discuss the latest in lung nodule diagnostics, management and treatment. Table of Contents 0:00:00 Introduction 0:02:57 What are nodules and masses, and how do people know that they have them in their lungs? 0:04:18 Should I panic if I have a nodule? 0:05:52 How do you work with the patients? 0:07:38 Why is not smoking more important now than ever? 0:10:17 How quickly do cancerous lung nodules grow compared to other types of cancer? And how urgently must patients act? 0:11:26 What are some of the options to evaluate lung nodules and lung masses? 0:14:13 How invasive is a lung biopsy? 0:16:14 How minimal actually is the procedure? 0:17:48 What are lymph nodes and why are they important? 0:19:33 Can an 11 millimeter nodule be biopsied by that bronchoscope method through the throat? 0:20:44 Is following a nodule ground glass opacity with yearly CT standard? When there are no changes from scan to scan. 0:22:47 What can people expect before, during, and after one of these procedures? 0:24:28 Would my annual low dose CT lung cancer screening show nodules? Or does it have to be a higher dose CT screening? 0:26:30 What is the process for screening for lung cancer in general, and what people need to know? 0:27:15 Is the evaluation and procedure that we've been talking about, is that covered by insurance as well?