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Pulmonary Nodule Conference PART 2: What is the pathway and assessment following the discovery of a pulmonary nodule? Dr Thibaut CHOLLIER, thoracic surgeon at the Belledonne Clinic - ELSAN Group. For many decades, lung cancer was diagnosed based on clinical warning signs, necessarily at an advanced stage, with an extremely poor prognosis. The screening scanner has finally proven its beneficial nature not only on diagnosis and treatment but especially on cure. We will specify its indications and modalities. Pulmonary nodules, whether discovered on a screening scanner or by chance on the many examinations carried out today for multiple indications, represent a new diagnostic and management problem for the clinician. We will specify the pathway that can be proposed in the initial management and the assessment of these increasingly frequently discovered anomalies.