Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
23 MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA Hamza Hashmi, MD A 70-year-old white man with past medical history of hypertension (HTN) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) presents with a persistent cough for…
Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment: Early Stage
16 SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER TREATMENT: EARLY STAGE Victor van Berkel, MD, PhD • Neal E. Dunlap, MD • Matthew Fox, MD • Alden Klarer, MD, PhD • Kate Alyse…
Immunotoxicity
21 IMMUNOTOXICITY Amitoj Gill, MD • Rahul Gosain, MD This case involves a 68-year-old man diagnosed with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and adenocarcinoma histology with a programmed death…
Etiology of Lung Cancer
3 ETIOLOGY OF LUNG CANCER Goetz Kloecker, MD, MBA, MSPH, FACP • Brian Dong, MD • Rohit Kumar, MD Your 60-year-old female patient with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer never…
Prevention of Lung Cancer
9 PREVENTION OF LUNG CANCER Susanne M. Arnold, MD A 40-year-old African American male with a past medical history of hypertension and myocardial infarction and a 15 pack-year tobacco history…
History of Lung Cancer
1 HISTORY OF LUNG CANCER Goetz Kloecker, MD, MBA, MSPH, FACP A medical student reading about lung cancer notices that the number of lung cancer deaths has steadily increased worldwide….
Physiology of extreme altitude
19 Physiology of extreme altitude Introduction History of climbing at very high altitudes Sixteenth to nineteenth centuries Twentieth century Characteristics and history of ascents on Mount Everest Physiology of extreme…
