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How has COVID-19 altered your recommendations for invasive mediastinal staging for NSCLC?

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Radiation Oncology · City of Hope

I just had this discussion with our chief of interventional pulmonolgy at MD Anderson. Some of his faculty are being asked to staff our COVID-19 patient floor. In addition, bronchoscopy procedures should be considered high-risk procedures, and are required to have at least 45 minutes in between proc...

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Medical Oncology · Yale Cancer Center

It certainly has pushed me more to using EBUS than mediastinoscopy and having to give patients the benefit of the doubt even when the EBUS retrieves only a small sample.

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