Studies - Lung Cancer Diagnostic
A pulmonologist will determine whether there is actually from lung cancer and whether it has spread.
The conversation with the patient is actually a first examination. Then we look at the physical condition of the patient, blood is taken and there are photos and scans to see where the tumor is.
Normally, cells will also always be removed in order to establish which type of lung cancer is concerned. Examining the removed cells is done by a pathologist. Also because certain properties of the lung cancer cell of interest for the determination of the treatment are also often present in patients with metastases examined for the presence of an abnormality in the EGF receptor, the so-called EGFR mutation assay.
