Lung cancer is the most deadly tumor, it causes more death than colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and prostate cancer combined.Approximately 75% of patients with lung cancer will have locally advanced or metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis and it has been estimated that about 30% of patients will develop obstruction of the airways at some point in their disease and that about 30% will die from pulmonary complications such as hypoxemia, hemoptysis or postobstructive pneumonia. Advances in bronchoscopic tools and techniques have provided interventional pulmonologists with a wide array...