Endoscopy earns Center of Excellence

Published November 25, 2020

The Medical Center at Bowling Endoscopy has been named a Center of Excellence by Veran Medical Technologies. This honor is a distinct designation by Veran for facilities with an established lung cancer screening program.

In the US, more people die from lung cancer than any other cancer combined. And most often, symptoms are not present until the cancer has spread and progressed to late stage disease. Lung cancer screening shines hope on this deadly condition through early detection when the disease is most treatable and often curable.

The lung cancer team at The Medical Center at Bowling Green uses the Veran SPiN Thoracic Navigation System™ during lung procedures should a suspect nodule be identified during the lung screening. This novel technology uses electromagnetic navigation (EMN), which is similar to the GPS in your car, to guide doctors to even the smallest, hard to access nodules resulting in earlier lung cancer detection. The system is minimally invasive and enables doctors to reach and biopsy small suspect nodules anywhere in the lung. This speeds time to diagnosis, without the need for multiple procedures, so life-saving treatments don’t have to wait.