About The Doctor

James Luketich

Thoracic surgeon , Chief, Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery

Throughout the years, Dr. James Luketich has spent his time slowly crawling to the top of the pyramid. It has been a slow and steady climb that has taken him there. He has excelled over the years through the multi-disciplinary management of the devastating illness mesothelioma. This is a rare type of cancer that has been crushing to those who contract it. Most of the time, it happens because the victim had been exposed to asbestos fibers earlier in his lifetime. While it might take years before manifesting itself, this fatal condition has a high mortality rate.

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Making the Healthcare Industry Better

Dr. James Luketich has experience working with all aspects of asbestos-related disease. This experience has refined his minimally invasive surgical approach, bettering the healthcare industry and the field of mesothelioma treatment.

Message of Hope

Dr. James Luketich has published over 200 scholarly papers and written many book chapters chronicling his work and his overall vision for better healthcare.

Predictions

Dr. James Luketich and his team of co-authors predicted that mesothelioma incidence would peak around 2020. This peak is approximately 30 years after the Environmental Protection Agency banned all new uses of asbestos. Since then, companies have received relentless pressure to terminate all asbestos-related product lines.

Envisioning a Better Future

Dr. Luketich has published over 200 scholarly papers and written many book chapters chronicling his work and his overall vision for better healthcare.

In one of Luketich’s presentations to the American Surgical Association, he included a single-center review of over 980 mesothelioma cases. His work was praised by Dr. David Sugarbaker as a “landmark paper” and his colleagues consider it to be a step forward for the field of mesothelioma treatment.

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