Identify most expeditious, safest, highest yield approaches to diagnosis and staging for chest neoplasms in specific clinical scenarios. |
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Discuss pros and cons of various diagnostic and treatment strategies. |
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Determine compliance with NCCN treatment guidelines, and when deviation from those guidelines may be appropriate. |
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Obtain assistance in clinical staging by real time review of imaging studies with the radiologist. |
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Review pathology slides with pathologists in cases where diagnosis is uncertain, allowing correlation of clinical and pathologic findings. |
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Discuss possible barriers and biases which may impact patient care (i.e., race, ethnicity, language, gender identity/orientation, age, socioeconomic status, attitudes, feelings, or other characteristics). |
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