Is Medicare Ignoring Cheaper Lung-Cancer Test?
February 18th, 2010
Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in the United States. Now, new technologies are making it easier and less expensive to detect it early.
But is Medicare making it too hard for patients to get access to them? 2 Investigator Pam Zekman looks at one company’s struggle to get a procedure approved.
Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy — or ENB – gives physicians a virtual tour of a patient’s lungs
“This is a potentially very powerful tool in the toolbox (against) lung cancer,” says Dan Sullivan, president of a company called superDimension, which developed and markets ENB.