Meet Dr. Lynn Tanoue

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• 00:00My name is Linda.
• 00:01No EI am a professor of medicine in the
• 00:04section of pulmonary and critical care
• 00:07medicine at Yale School of Medicine.
• 00:09I come. Treat patients who have all
• 00:12sorts of pulmonary diseases because I
• 00:15am a pulmonary critical care physician,
• 00:18I became a pulmonologist because it's
• 00:20kind of like super internal medicine.
• 00:23You maintain the breadth of disease,
• 00:25but but the ability then to focus
• 00:28on a specific area of medicine,
• 00:31in this case, pulmonary medicine
• 00:33and intensive care unit medicine.
• 00:35And I got interested in the
• 00:38rasic oncology and lung cancer.
• 00:40Maybe 20 years ago?
• 00:43Pulmonologists participate in the
• 00:45diagnostic part of that evaluation
• 00:47because many patients are thought
• 00:49to have lung cancer,
• 00:50but end up having some other
• 00:53pulmonary problem, and I find that.
• 00:57Puzzle piece of it really interesting.
• 01:00And I realized that's a very challenging
• 01:03time for patients because of the
• 01:05concern of something bad like cancer
• 01:07or some other problem that really
• 01:10could affect their life and longevity.
• 01:12I'm the principal investigator on
• 01:14the Yale Lung Cancer Biorepository,
• 01:17which right now has over 1000 cases
• 01:19of patients who have had lung cancer.
• 01:22Predominantly early stage lung cancer,
• 01:24and that is my interest.
• 01:26The patients who are early stage
• 01:29I direct the.
• 01:30Lung cancer screening and nodule
• 01:32program and the intent of that really
• 01:34is to do early detection so that we
• 01:37will screen for patients who have lung
• 01:39cancer before they ever might suspect
• 01:41they do before they have symptoms.
• 01:43In a similar way too that women get
• 01:46mammography to screen for breast cancer.
• 01:4820 years ago people really
• 01:50felt if they had lung cancer,
• 01:52they were just going to die and in many
• 01:55cases that unfortunately it was true that
• 01:57the one year survival even was quite low.
• 02:00And that has really changed,
• 02:02and so in a similar way that
• 02:05breast cancer now has many,
• 02:07many,
• 02:07many long term survivors who may
• 02:09live with the disease very well,
• 02:12even if it can't be cured those
• 02:14days for lung cancer are here,
• 02:17and we are really moving towards
• 02:19that future where we can help
• 02:21people live long and healthy lives,
• 02:23even if they've had or have
• 02:26a diagnosis of lung cancer.