Articles tagged with 'lung cancer' | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

When 12-year-old Angela Beltran developed a persistent cough that left her struggling to breathe, her mother knew something was seriously wrong.  “The last cough she had scared me. She woke up and she couldn’t breathe,” said Anita Sanchez, Angela’s …

Bricca Addison, a retired Metro transportation dispatcher, was completely unaware she had lung cancer.Addison, who previously smoked, was referred to the Cedars-Sinai Lung Cancer Screening Program by her primary care physician because Addison met …

As director of the Division of Thoracic Surgery in the Jim and Eleanor Randall Department of Surgery at Cedars-Sinai, Harmik J. Soukiasian, MD, and his colleagues are on the forefront of surgical innovations for patients with early-stage lung …