Dr. Ashwin Karanam Provides Perspective to Medscape on Study Presented at AABIP on Pulmonary Embolism and Lung Cancer

Ashwin Karanam, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Clinical Thoracic Medicine and Surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, provided perspective to Medscape on a study presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (AABIP) on pulmonary embolism (PE) and lung cancer. The study found that mortality rates among adults with concurrent lung cancer and PE increased significantly in the past two decades, with disparities in mortality rates across various demographics. Karanam was not involved in the study.