Dr. Andrea Wolf

Dr. Andrea Wolf is Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health. She trained at the Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals. Dr. Wolf directs the Women’s Lung Cancer Program and treats patients of both genders with cancerous and non-cancerous diseases of the chest at the Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Health and Living

Outing a Silent Killer: Screening and Beating Lung Cancer

By Dr. Andrea Wolf

Did you know that lung cancer kills more people each year than colon, prostate, and breast cancer combined? In 2012, this number represented over 160,000 men and women who died from lung cancer, over 25% of all cancer deaths in the United States. Yet this is a treatable disease.