Thoracic Cancer Treatments & Services
Moffitt Cancer Center’s Thoracic Oncology Program includes a multispecialty team that focuses exclusively on diseases that impact the lungs, trachea, thymus and chest wall, including mesotheliomas. As a referring physician, you can be assured that your patients will be in the care of thoracic specialists with unparalleled clinical expertise. In a single convenient location, our team provides:
- Medical oncology
- Molecular tumor profiling
- Pathology
- Radiation oncology
- Radiology and thoracic specialist readings
- Pulmonology
- Nutrition consults
- Supportive care
- Screening, diagnosis and staging
- Fiber optic bronchoscopy with specimen collection
- Advanced bronchoscopy with endobrochial ultrasound (EBUS)
- Fine needle aspiration with or without CT or fluoroscopic guidance
- Thoracentesis
- Thoracotomy
- Low-dose lung cancer CT screening
Comprehensive thoracic oncology services
A broad range of treatments are available to patients with thoracic cancer at Moffitt. Our treatment options include:
- Chemotherapy
- Molecular targeted therapeutics
- Neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy protocols
- Clinical trials
- Vaccine therapy
- Immunotherapy
- Including checkpoint inhibitors such as anti-PD-1
- Radiation Therapy
- Brachytherapy
- Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)
- Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT)
- Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
- Surgery
- Bronchoscopy
- Complex lung/chest wall and vertebral resections and reconstruction for superior sulcus (Pancoast) tumors
- Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy
- Endobronchial navigation bronchoscopy (ENB)
- Extrapleural pneumonectomy
- Extrapleural pneumonectomy
- Lobectomy
- Mediastinoscopy
- Pleurectomy and pleurectomy/decortication
- Pleurectomy/decortication
- PleurX catheter placement for pleural effusions
- Pneumonectomy
- Resection of pulmonary metastases
- Resection of the chest wall and sternal masses and chest wall/sternal reconstruction
- Robotic-assisted thymectomy
- Segmentectomy
- Sleeve resection
- Surgical management of pleural and pericardial effusions (i.e., pleurodesis)
- Surgical resection of mediastinal masses
- Thoracotomy
- Tracheal resection
- Transcervical thymectomy
- Transsternal thymectomy
- Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) or robotic-assisted lung surgery
- Wedge resection
The above approaches aren’t all Moffitt offers. As a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Moffitt spearheads groundbreaking research initiatives and clinical trials that allow our patients to benefit from the latest advancements in treatment before those options are made widely available. To learn more about our available clinical trials, call 813-745-6100 or submit a clinical trial inquiry form.
Refer a patient
If you’d like to refer a patient to Moffitt’s Thoracic Oncology Program, contact a physician liaison or complete our online form. We prioritize timely service and respond to most referral requests in less than 48 hours.