Watch an interview with Ramesh Rengan, MD, PhD, a radiation oncologist at Penn Medicine. The transcript is included below. View Dr. Rengan's online profile: www.pennmedicine.org Visit Penn Medicine's radiation oncology website: www.pennmedicine.org "I see patients who have cancers that originate within the chest cavity so the most common cancer that I see in my clinic is lung cancer patients. But I also see patients with a diagnosis of mesothelioma which is a cancer of the coverings of the lung. And patients who have a diagnosis of thymoma which is a tumor of the thymus gland." "We see all of our patients in a multi-disciplinary clinic; imaging is reviewed, we have pathologists, surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, pulmonary physicians, all gathered at the same time to discuss and review in exquisite detail every patients case." "We here at Penn are very much in favor of clinical trials because that's the way we learn, that's the way we advance care. The whole goal of a clinical trial is to try to advance and improve upon the treatments that we [already employ]." "We're in a unique situation at Penn that we can take the discoveries that are identified in the laboratory and find a way from moving those discoveries from the bench over to the bedside for the patient. I believe that it's a true privilege to be involved in a partnership with the patient as they are facing this tremendously challenging moment in their life." "For many of us who considered ...
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