Why choose UAB for lung cancer screenings and treatment?
UAB is home to one of the most experienced teams of thoracic surgeons, nurses and thoracic anesthesiologists in the world – a group that routinely performs complicated lung surgeries referred to them by other physicians. In addition, UAB is home to a brand new, state-of-the-art 19-bed Thoracic Surgery Unit – one of a handful of units of its kind in the world dedicated solely to caring for diseases and disorders of the lung and esophagus. “Our patients come to us for the team, not for any one individual,” Cerfolio says. “Everyone involved with the new Thoracic Surgery Unit – the physicians, nurses and medical support staff – is highly specialized in diseases of the lung and esophagus, primarily lung cancer.” If you’d like more information about lung cancer, click here. To schedule an appointment with a UAB physician who specializes in diseases of the lung or esophagus, call UAB HealthFinder at 1-800-UAB-8816.
