Through Baptist Health Foundation, we are able to get, amazing technology to help our lung cancer patients be diagnosed earlier. That way, we can give patients the best chance of having a cure. We have been utilizing ion bronchoscopy, which is a robotic bronchoscopy platform to do biopsies. And recently, the foundation has provided us very graciously with a three d or cone beam c arm, which allows us to do a CT scan while doing these biopsies.
This allows us to biopsy smaller and smaller nodules with more accuracy and helps us get patients to diagnosis in those earlier stages.
The name of the game is early detection for lung cancer, and this cone beam CT paired with ion bronchoscopy is what allows us to yield and get those outcomes.
This technology has allowed us to increase the number of patients that we diagnose with cancer and has given us more accuracy in that diagnosis. For instance, patients with very small nodules we're able to use the cone beam c arm to get a picture of that very small nodule to know I'm in exactly the right place, and I'm biopsying the right place and get them treated.
It has impacted the the delivery of care through that early detection. We can now biopsy much smaller nodules down to six millimeters, whereas before, we are really limited to the one centimeter range. And having this ability gets the physician a diagnosis and the patient sooner, which allows us to have curative outcomes.
I'm so grateful to the community for everything that they have done to support our program, to support our patients, and to support me.
I could not be more thankful without our donors, without our foundation, without the support of the community, we would not be able to have this type of technology in our hospital. You know, it's really exciting to me to know that we were able to drive these outcomes for our community. You know, that's our mission, to make the community healthier. And with this technology, we're really achieving that.
I can't express how excited and how happy I am to have the support from the community. And I can't thank everyone enough for helping our patients.
