One of the most important cancer-fighting strategies is catching and removing tumors early before they have a chance to grow and metastasize.
Dr. Alexi Matousek, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Sacred Heart Medical Center, is trying to do that with lung cancer. Lung cancer doesn’t have a widely-used early screening tool, as there are for prostate and breast cancers.
Instead, Matousek is using a robot called ION and leveraging two of his other roles at Sacred Heart, director of robotics and research mentor for medical students…