Surgical Capabilities

The Northern Virginia Thoracic Oncology Program brings surgeons from the top cardiothoracic surgery programs in our nation's capital to the Northern Virginia community.

Thoracic Surgery

• Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy (VATS)
• Conventional Thoracotomy
• Conventional Lobectomy
• Segmentectomy
• Lung Biopsy
• Mediastinoscopy
• Thymectomy
• Mediastinal Surgery
• Benign and Malignant Lung Disease
• Benign and Malignant Esophageal Disease
• Thoracic Trauma
• Pleural Disease
• Pericardial Windows (Paricardiotomy)

Thoracic Critical Care

• Comprehensive system-structured management
• Noninvasive Post-Operative Monitoring
• Evidence based Critical Care in Beacon Award winning Reston Hospital Center CCU
• Meticulous Referring Physician Communication
• Compassionate Family Counseling
• International Continuing Medical Education

Adjuvant Therapies

The program promises coordinated, interdisciplinary patient care. Reston Hospital Center is on the leading-edge of all aspects of thoracic oncology and promises provide the most seamless of care to our patients. Throughout the process, communication and involvement with referring physicians will be consistent.

Medical Oncology

• Chemotherapy
• Targeted Biotherapy- Monoclonal Antibodies
• Integrated medications and therapies to lesson the side-effects of chemotherapy.

Radiation Oncology

• External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)
• Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
• Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
• Advanced CT capabilities make respiratory gating in radiation therapy a possibility at RHC.