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12 mm Spiculated Nodule upper right lobe

Lung Cancer | Last Active: Jun 20 3:34pm | Replies (58)

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When a ground glass nodule (opacity) is suspicious for malignancy a wedge resection is usually the preferred method of biopsy. GGO/GGNs are subsolid and cannot be easily biopsied otherwise. A needle biopsy is most likely to yield a false negative.

Currently, I am dealing with GGOs that are becoming part solid. Like spiculations, this often indicates that it is becoming malignant. (95% of GGOs are benign). My oncologist and my second opinion oncologist both took my case to their respective Tumor Boards, both suggested wedge resection but also said it might get be risky due to damage from previous treatment. I opted to wait for this to become solid enough to perform a needle biopsy or an EBUS.

Surgery is the gold standard in lung cancer treatment. If caught early enough it gives the patient the best chance for complete cure.

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Thank you so much for all the information. I have been in denial about the whole thing for awhile, thinking that it was just going to disappear again. The doctor did say that if anything it would probably be stage 1 and he didn't think that I would be needing chemo/radiation afterwards. He also mentioned that he didn't think my PET/CT would show much more than the CT did. Regardless, having the PET/CT done next week. I know that many of you are going through far worse and I should consider myself very lucky that it's caught early, but I'm still very scared.