Why Does it Help Doctors if Patients Share Their Asbestos Exposure History?

[MUSIC PLAYING] We do have some patients that do-- will give me as a side note. So every once in a while-- oh, actually, by the way, I worked in the shipyards. I was in the Navy up in Marin. And so those patients, it's very nice and it is beneficial to let us know that. The reason why-- and if you do know that and the patient, say, wants to know a little bit more about whether or not it was related to asbestos or not, you can now test the tissue-- test the tissue once we take it out surgically for asbestos fibers and whatnot. And that can also help them just understand a little bit more why they developed lung cancer, understand what their job was doing, and understand just a lot of the financial and emotional aspects of things because their cancer may have not been related to smoking. It may have been related to asbestos and something that they couldn't do anything about. They were working, and that's what they got. And so I do think that if patients do tell us that, I think us as clinicians, we should act on that. And we should notify our pathologists to look at that. We should notify our oncologists to look at that because potentially that could be treated differently. Right now, it's not. It's treated the same, lung cancer asbestos related or lung cancer not. But in the future, with all these new treatments, new targeted treatments, immunotherapy, beneficial effects with mesothelioma, then maybe we can enhance that and use that for asbestos-related lung cancer too. So it's extra treatment that can help. So I think that that is something that we could do a better job at. [MUSIC PLAYING]