 My name is Nabila Rizq. I'm a thoracic surgeon at Hack & Sack in the Cancer Center, John Thorpe Cancer Center, and I'm the chief of the thoracic service. Thoracic surgeons focus their care on patients who have problems in the chest, including the esophagus, the lung, and structures around the heart. So the major cause of lung cancer is smoking, and most of our patients are actually former smokers. However, if patients are actively smoking, their risk to get lung cancer is is significantly higher than if they do quit. A big part of evaluating patients who are at risk for lung cancer is to do a screening CAT scan. We do a lot of lung cancer treatment, both early stage and advanced stage, and typically centers that do a lot of a certain type of care tend to have better outcomes. An additional benefit of seeking care for lung cancer at Hack & Sack is that there's a cancer center at the John Thorpe Cancer Center, and that sort of focuses the care of the patients on just their cancer rather than a typical hospital where it's distributed among many different health care providers. We have weekly meetings where we discuss every patient who's taken care of in the center, and so you have a multi-disciplinary approach where multiple different physicians and type of physicians will give their input on the care of patients. One of the reasons we do have very good outcomes is because the amount of experience we share amongst the group. Another advantage of seeking care at the John Thorpe Cancer Center is that we have access to a lot of novel drugs that combined with surgery improve the chances for cure. And so this is not something that typically an oncologist in the community is able to access, but the cancer center we have direct access to these drugs. One of the pleasures as a physician in being a surgeon is that you can fix a problem. You can see the problem being fixed with immediate result, and if you do a good technical job to patients that have good outcomes, it's always very satisfying.