Our team collaborates with transplant surgeons to create a comprehensive lung transplant program that supports you throughout your patient experience. The Thoracic Tumor board works with our colleagues to bring together a group of doctors from different fields to evaluate your specific case and create a treatment plan with input from different experts to find the best possible treatment plan.

Thoracic surgeons treat the following conditions:

• Chest wall tumors
• Emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, and other end-stage lung diseases
• Esophageal cancer
• Hiatal hernia (stomach bulges into the chest through an opening in the diaphragm)
• GERD & acid reflux
• Hyperhidrosis (excessive, involuntary sweating)
• Lung cancer
• Pectus excavatum (sunken chest)
• Tracheal stenosis (narrowing of the trachea, or windpipe)

Patients are supported in and out of the OR for the best possible patient experience and success for your treatment. Our team and colleagues at U-M Health's Surgical & Health Optimization Program help prepare patients before a surgery, so you can recover quickly and successfully. Our expertise also includes minimally invasive technology in our procedures to ensure your experience is as comfortable as possible.

To make an appointment, call our thoracic surgery clinic at (734) 936-4973. You may also schedule an appointment by logging into MyUofMHealth.

Caring for you drives our research, as we strive to find the new solutions for patients. We are currently developing new ways to detect esophageal cancer earlier. And our tradition of leading the way in innovative procedures is seen in our focus on expanding our knowledge and using new technology to create a better patient experience.