Banner Boswell Medical Center has added a  robot-assisted bronchoscopy platform that detects cancerous nodules sooner.

A ribbon cutting heralded the addition last month, making the hospital the first in the West Valley to use the new platform.

"This platform offers physicians a way to perform minimally invasive biopsies in the outer areas/deeper parts of the lung(s), which are not easily accessible by conventional bronchoscopy," hospital officials  stated.

“We are grateful to a caring community for donations through Sun Health Foundation that are essential to funding this new robotic technology,” said Gina W. Ore, chief philanthropy officer with Sun Health Foundation.

“How reassuring it is to know this advancement in care doesn’t have to wait; it’s available now for patients to strengthen the fight against lung cancer and other diseases.”

For more information on ways to support  health care through the Generosity for Generations Campaign, visit SunHealthFoundation.org/generosity or call 623-471-8500.