Thoracic surgeon Dr. █████████ and medical oncologist Dr. ████████████ to talk about the latest in lung cancer prevention, screenings and early detection. Please stay on the line and you will automatically be connected or press 1 on your telephone keypad to join right now. This event may be recorded. Hi, I'm calling on behalf of upmc. I'd like to invite you to participate in a teletyp. E talking about symptoms, screening process, and you're going to be able to call us. That's what's so great. So I want you to know something before we get started. You. As you're listening to the conversation, all you need to do is press star and number three. Star three. And that gets you right in here with us. And you can tell the screener what you'd like to ask the doctors. Ask your question and. We'll get that right to them. Now, one other thing. You're going to ask us questions. I'd like to ask you a question. So this is considered our poll question today, and here's what it is. Only smokers get lung cancer. What do you think? Only smokers get lung cancer. So I want you to press one if that is true. And press 2 if you think that is false. So as we speak today, you'll get the scoop. So, Dr. ████, if I could have you to just introduce yourself. What do you got for us today? Oh, thanks for having us. I'm the chief of thoracic surgery at UPMC and University of Pittsburgh. I want to thank everyone on the call for joining us. This is a very important topic, and it's kind of very dear to my heart, because what we're really here for is thoracic surgeons and thoracic oncologists is to decrease mortality from lung cancer. And to prolong people's lives that are unfortunately afflicted with lung cancer. So every year, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related death in the █████████████. There are almost ███████████ cases nationally diagnosed a year. And as we'll talk about, while smoking is the main risk factor, it's not the only risk factor for lung cancer. The key with lung cancer is early detection. It's not that we don't only cure people that are diagnosed at early stage, but it's much easier to. And unfortunately, lung cancer can be a silent killer and that it's not very common to have symptoms from lung cancer. Most of the lung cancers we diagnose are minimally symptomatic. To asymptomatic patients. So our best chance of cure is when cases are detected early, which would be stage one lung cancers. and if you are a