Meet Dr. Lynn Tanoue
July 15, 2021Meet Dr. Lynn Tanoue
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Hear from Dr. Lynn Tanoue about her treatment of pulmonology diseases and her role as a critical care pulmonologist.
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- 00:00My name is Linda.
- 00:01No EI am a professor of medicine in the
- 00:04section of pulmonary and critical care
- 00:07medicine at Yale School of Medicine.
- 00:09I come. Treat patients who have all
- 00:12sorts of pulmonary diseases because I
- 00:15am a pulmonary critical care physician,
- 00:18I became a pulmonologist because it's
- 00:20kind of like super internal medicine.
- 00:23You maintain the breadth of disease,
- 00:25but but the ability then to focus
- 00:28on a specific area of medicine,
- 00:31in this case, pulmonary medicine
- 00:33and intensive care unit medicine.
- 00:35And I got interested in the
- 00:38rasic oncology and lung cancer.
- 00:40Maybe 20 years ago?
- 00:43Pulmonologists participate in the
- 00:45diagnostic part of that evaluation
- 00:47because many patients are thought
- 00:49to have lung cancer,
- 00:50but end up having some other
- 00:53pulmonary problem, and I find that.
- 00:57Puzzle piece of it really interesting.
- 01:00And I realized that's a very challenging
- 01:03time for patients because of the
- 01:05concern of something bad like cancer
- 01:07or some other problem that really
- 01:10could affect their life and longevity.
- 01:12I'm the principal investigator on
- 01:14the Yale Lung Cancer Biorepository,
- 01:17which right now has over 1000 cases
- 01:19of patients who have had lung cancer.
- 01:22Predominantly early stage lung cancer,
- 01:24and that is my interest.
- 01:26The patients who are early stage
- 01:29I direct the.
- 01:30Lung cancer screening and nodule
- 01:32program and the intent of that really
- 01:34is to do early detection so that we
- 01:37will screen for patients who have lung
- 01:39cancer before they ever might suspect
- 01:41they do before they have symptoms.
- 01:43In a similar way too that women get
- 01:46mammography to screen for breast cancer.
- 01:4820 years ago people really
- 01:50felt if they had lung cancer,
- 01:52they were just going to die and in many
- 01:55cases that unfortunately it was true that
- 01:57the one year survival even was quite low.
- 02:00And that has really changed,
- 02:02and so in a similar way that
- 02:05breast cancer now has many,
- 02:07many,
- 02:07many long term survivors who may
- 02:09live with the disease very well,
- 02:12even if it can't be cured those
- 02:14days for lung cancer are here,
- 02:17and we are really moving towards
- 02:19that future where we can help
- 02:21people live long and healthy lives,
- 02:23even if they've had or have
- 02:26a diagnosis of lung cancer.