Hospital Medicine

Thoracic Malignancies

Questions discussed in this category

What is your next step in management for a patient with immunotherapy induced pneumonitis that does not improve on high dose steroids for 48 hours?

How do you decide between starting infliximab, MMF, or IVIG? If a patient presents in respiratory failure (nearing or requiring intubation), woul...

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Is there any role for palliative radiation in patients who are intubated due to malignant airway obstruction?

Given the substantial risks associated with transporting an intubated and ventilated patient to Radiation Oncology, is there any evidence to support t...

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In a life-time non-smoker with stage IV lung adenocarcinoma presenting in visceral crisis, what therapy would you recommend to avoid organ failure while awaiting mutational status?

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Would you hold osimertinib in a patient with a STEMI, and for how long?

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How do you approach management of newly diagnosed locally advanced NSCLC in patients who are intubated for respiratory failure due to their disease burden?

E.g. disease burden causing airway or vascular compression.

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What is your approach for a symptomatic inpatient with locally advanced NSCLC who cannot have a PET?

Would you consider treating the full mediastinum or any mildly enlarged nodes, even contralateral? Do you have a strategy that transitions from a pall...

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How would you manage palliation in a patient with postobstructive pneumonia caused by a mediastinal mass?

Would you treat if there is active infection? How much improvement would you expect?

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Is SVC syndrome a medical emergency?

Is a biopsy needed? Do you consider treatment palliative or curative?

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