Modern lung cancer care relies not only on what a tumor looks like under the microscope, but also on how it behaves at the molecular and immunologic level. One term that appears frequently in pathology and oncology reports is PD-L1.…
Pathology reports for lung cancer often include technical terms that are unfamiliar to patients, even though those terms play a critical role in diagnosis and treatment planning. One of the most common and confusing is TTF-1. Seeing “TTF-1 positive” or…
A lung cancer diagnosis often comes with unfamiliar and intimidating terminology. Among the most common and confusing distinctions patients encounter is whether their cancer is classified as adenocarcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma. While both are types of non–small cell lung…
