A lung biopsy is often the moment when uncertainty turns into answers. The tissue sample obtained during a biopsy allows pathologists to determine whether cancer is present and, if so, what type of lung cancer it is. But in modern…
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…
