Provider Profile:
Victor Gordon, M.D.

Personal health has been a traditional focus of goals for the New Year. Be it getting more active, quitting smoking or just being more proactive with one’s health, personal health improvement is the most popular goal when the calendar flips to January and a fresh year begins. If improvement and boosting your overall wellbeing is your motivation as 2022 approaches, take your first steps now. Listen to these 8 podcasts from McLaren Macomb physicians. Heart disease and alternatives to open heart surgery wi...

Catching her lung cancer early allowed a patient to avoid the more intense cancer treatments. “In so many ways, I’m so thankful.” Two years after Claudean’s primary care physician, McLaren Macomb’s Dr. Cynthia Trosin, first recommended the former smoker get a lung cancer screening, a follow up screening came back positive. Her initial screening resulted in her physicians noticing a suspicious spot on her lung. Still, it wasn’t big enough for them to intervene upon, yet it something to monitor closely mo...

When it comes to any cancer, catching it early can make a world of difference in how oncologists can treat it. And with lung cancer, one of the most common forms of cancer in the United States, the only test to detect it early is a low-dose CT lung cancer screening. “It’s basically, it’s just like an X-ray machine, but it takes a 360-degree image of the patient while they're lying flat on a board,” said Dr. Victor Gordon, a pulmonologist and medical director of pulmonary rehabilitation at McLaren Macomb...

We’re all used to some of those routine tests that come up regularly—physicals, shots, colonoscopies. But maybe there’s another test we should add to the list—a lung screening. Over 200,000 people in the United States will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year. Long before the outward symptoms occur, trouble could be brewing, and you might not even know.