Therapeutic Bronchoscopic Techniques Available to the Pulmonologist: Emerging Therapies in the Treatment of Peripheral Lung Lesions and Endobronchial Tumors.

Therapeutic Bronchoscopic Techniques Available to the Pulmonologist: Emerging Therapies in the Treatment of Peripheral Lung Lesions and Endobronchial Tumors. Clin Chest Med. 2020 Mar;41(1):145-160 Authors: Aboudara M, Rickman O, Maldonado F Abstract Therapeutic bronchoscopy for both endobronchial tumors and peripheral lung cancer is rapidly evolving. The expected increase in early stage lung cancer detection and significant improvement in near real-time imaging for diagnostic bronchoscopy has led to the development of bronchoscopy-delivered ablative technologies. Therapies targeting obstructing central airway tumors for palliation and as a method of local disease control, patient selection and patient-centered outcomes have been areas of ongoing research. This review focuses on patient selection when considering therapeutic bronchoscopy and new and developing technologies for endobronchial tumors and reviews the status of bronchoscopy-delivered ablative tools for peripheral lung cancers. PMID: 32008626 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Clinical Lung Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: Clin Chest Med Source Type: research