The team
The lung cancer service is made up of a multidisciplinary team including:
Respiratory Consultants
Bronchoscopy and diagnostics team – led by Val Bruce
Pleural service – led by Mahendran Chetty
Lung cancer specialist nurses – Liz Stephen, Tracy Petrie, Carole Mitchell
Pathologists – Andrea Chapman, Louise Smart, Keith Kerr
Cardiothoracic surgeons – Hardy Remmen, Mohammed Khalil, Keith Buchan
Clinical oncologist – Claire Stillwell
Medical Oncologist – Marianne Nicolson
Our aims
To provide rapid and supportive diagnostic service for patients with suspected lung cancer.
To provide expedient in-patient and out-patient treatment for lung cancer.
Our Services
Respiratory Clinic
Most people with symptoms suspicious of lung cancer will be referred to the respiratory suspected cancer service by their GP. Usually a CT scan is done before seeing a respiratory doctor at an urgent out-patient clinic. Some people are admitted directly to the respiratory ward or transferred from regional or island hospitals.
Pleural Clinic
Drs Chetty, Alluri and Fitch (respiratory consultants) run the pleural service. Procedures include pleural aspiration, biopsy, chest drain insertion and insertion of indwelling pleural catheters. These procedures are usually undertaken as a daycase. Conditions managed include lung cancer and pleural infection. Medical thoracoscopy may also soon be undertaken.
Respiratory In-patients
Occasionally admission to hospital is necessary either for tests requiring an overnight stay, or for management of symptoms caused by lung cancer.
