Mon Health welcomes New Director of Thoracic Surgery Program [Video]

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) – “Unfortunately West Virginia has the highest incidences of lung cancer in the country and worse outcome of lung cancer, so, it’s a real challenge for us. As a Thoracic Surgeon in collaboration with the Oncology and Pulmonologist; we try to improve the care for lung cancer. So, we believe on the screening to cure program, where we do lung cancer screening in patients who are high risk for lung cancer. And it’s been shown by doing lung cancer screening in high risk groups; you can reduce the deaths by lung cancer by 20%

Dr. Ghulum Abbas was recently named as the head of Mon Health’s new Thoracic Surgery Program. The program looks to focus on combatting the spread of both lung and esophageal cancer, while also increasing patient care. Dr. Abbas who has been in the thoracic field for over 16 years; has already been nationally recognized for …