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Puja Khaitan, MD, Director, Esophageal Surgery
Puja G. Khaitan, MD, FACS, is the director of Esophageal Surgery at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and associate professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Why all forms of tobacco are harmful, not just smoking
Cigarettes and other tobacco products contain one of the world’s most addictive substances: nicotine. The Centers for Disease Control and…
Routine lung cancer screening saves lives
We’ve made great progress in recent years when it comes to lung cancer. As noted in trends data from the…
Watch for these potential lung cancer warning signs
Despite recent progress in lung cancer research, the survival rate for lung cancer patients remains poor. Only about 18 percent…