Chest and Sleep Medicine

02/26/2025

Flint pulmonologist says a new testing method has impressive success.

02/26/2025

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01/04/2025

Happy birthday to the glue who holds our clinic together, our amazing office manager Brandy!

Without all of your hard work, kind attitude, and positivity you bring to the clinic we would be lost. Thank you for being our guiding light 🩵🫁🎉

11/11/2024

Now, McLaren Flint has a new tool that is expected to save countless more lives. The Ion Robotic Bronchoscopy, a minimally invasive procedure, allows pulmonologists to biopsy much smaller lung nodules, which means catching the cancer at a much earlier stage

🫁 With that in mind, don’t forget your annual lung cancer screenings! 🫁

https://www.mclaren.org/main/news/technology-making-it-easier-to-catch-number-one-ca-5344?

Major advances in lung cancer detection are helping catch lung cancers at earlier stages, improving the odds of surviving the leading cause of cancer death. “It is so deadly because it spreads,” said Dr. John Kuhn , McLaren Flint cardiothoracic surgeon. “Lung cancer typically goes undetected u...

10/23/2024

🫁Happy Respiratory Week to the best team ever!🫁

Your dedication, skill, and compassion make such a significant impact on the lives of so many. Here's to celebrating all the incredible work you do and the difference you make in the community.

07/17/2024

LEADING THE NEWS
Robotic bronchoscopy system has high diagnostic yield among patients with moderate-risk peripheral lung nodules, study finds
Healio (7/15, Hornick) reports a study found that “among patients with moderate-risk peripheral lung nodules, a robotic bronchoscopy system had high diagnostic yield.” The research found “the diagnostic yield of the Galaxy System was high falling between 89.5% and 94.7%.” Additionally, “the robotic navigated bronchoscopy system had high diagnostic accuracy (94.7%), sensitivity (94.4%) and specificity (100%).” The findings were published in Respirology.

06/26/2024

The Ion robotic bronchoscopy platform is for minimally invasive biopsy of peripheral lung nodules. It is designed to advance thoracic oncology and lung cancer care.

06/26/2024

Our pulmonary team has been very successful in pioneering the robotic bronchoscopy procedure at Mclaren Flint hospital

Robotic bronchoscopy is the Latest technology for sampling lung nodule found on CT chest