Will the pulmonologist still play a role in the management of screen-detected pulmonary nodules?

Symposium
Chairs: J. van Meerbeeck (Edegem (Antwerp), Belgium), R. Huber (Munich, Germany)
Aims: To describe non-invasive methods of early detection, diagnosis and confirmation of thoracic cancers and their effects on the role of pulmonologists in patient management.

The challenge for the endoscopist E. van der Heijden (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Issues other than tissue: non-invasive biomarkers of early stage lung cancer T. Blum (Berlin, Germany)
Radiologic early detection of early thoracic cancers: the role of artificial intelligence W. Voigt (Berlin, Germany)
The challenge for the pathologist and pulmonologist: liquid biopsy in the diagnosis of early stage lung cancer J. Chorostowska-Wynimko (Warsaw, Poland)