Timothy Burns, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine in the division of hematology-oncology at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, and a specialist in the treatment of lung cancer. He is an active member of the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.
This year, 127,000 Americans will die of lung cancer, making it the most deadly cancer by far and the second…