Welcome - and I’m sure one of our awesome mentors will find their way to this post soon with an official welcome.

I had a nodule discovered when I was having a chest X-ray in response to a positive Tb Test (which turned out to be a False Positive). No TB but a 6mm nodule way down in the
Bottom outside corner of my left
Lower lobe. Mmm. Assumption was that since I have RA it was an RA nodule. Let’s Watch it. Next year it was 7 mm. Get a PET scan since it grew a bit - all Good. Then it was 8 the next year then 9 and then last spring it was… Ruh roh - it was 14!
All hands on deck. Had surgery and tho no one predicted it, in fact it
was malignant - so out it comes along with the lobe it was resident in. That was last May. I’m good.

If I channel our awesome mentors, they would point out That you are on a board dedicated to Lung cancer. So anyone you ask will answer from our experienced perspective - that is also biased. You know the old adage that when you have a hammer in your hand everything looks like a nail. So you have the hammer and we are all nails 🙂

I will Put my bias aside and tell you as an honest to goodness statistician to remember that statistics mean nothing to an individual. They are great for forecasting outcomes of a population - but not for a population of one.

Trust your doc or get a second opinion from an oncologist to give you peace of mind - and then live large for six months. It’s a small thing, so take a breath. Eat in great restaurants, take a cruise -
Not because you won’t be able to later but because you chose to let it go for six months.

There are a lot of great people On this board so I will hush and yield the floor 🙂