Lung Cancer Treatment in a Caring Environment

MedStar Franklin Square's Thoracic Cancer Center offers the area's most advanced treatment options for lung cancer in a warm, welcoming environment close to home that will make you feel like a person, not a number. Our top lung cancer specialists are some of the best in the nation, and our Thoracic Cancer Coordinator will make sure your appointments are not only in synch, but that all of your needs are met.

Our lung cancer team can offer you the most advanced options for both diagnosis and treatment.  Three treatment modalities are available to patients with lung cancer:

• Surgery
• Chemotherapy
• Radiation

Surgical removal of lung cancer is the gold standard of treatment. However, sometimes further treatment is necessary. You should know that at MedStar Franklin Square we offer two advanced lung cancer treatments:

CyberKnife® with Synchrony™

CyberKnife with Synchrony is a breakthrough technology used to treat many types of inoperable or surgically difficult (hard for surgeons to reach) tumors, and is especially successful for treating lung cancer.

At MedStar Franklin Square, you will work with the country's leading and most experienced CyberKnife specialists, as well as your own patient navigator, to address all of your concerns and get you on the road to recovery.

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)

Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is a minimally invasive procedure used to diagnose, treat and alleviate symptoms of lung cancer. Since only very small incisions are needed, healing is fast with minimal pain and complications. VATS is one of the surgical treatment options we offer for lung cancer.

MedStar Franklin Square's thoracic surgeons, some of the most experienced in the nation, have the expertise to ensure that your VATS procedure will go smoothly so you'll get back to the most important things faster-living your life.

To make an appointment with one of our experienced lung and thoracic cancer specialists, please call 443-777-5864 (LUNG).