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Lung nodule... Reassuring results but still anxious
Lung Health | Last Active: Mar 11 5:48pm | Replies (22)Comment receiving replies
Thank you, your response is greatly appreciated. I see your grew, my mom's nodule have not changed in size in 3 years, but the spiculation is what scares me. I do not want it to spread so waiting 6 months is so difficult.
I do not know if oncologist will do much if pulmonologist says it's fine to wait. They already did the liquid biopsy, pulmonology mostly deals with cancer treatments on confirmed or highly suspicious findings, and her is neither.
So now we can just wait, which is very anxiety provoking, get a second pulmonologist opinion or maybe consult a thoracic surgeon to see what removal options are available.
Given yours was not PET reactive, how many years total did it take for it to grow to 14mm? Also, did they have to remove the whole lobe? I thought they now were doing minimally invasive VAT surgeries where only a small part of the lobe comes out??
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Four years. It grew 1mm per yr from 6 to 9mm and then went from 9 to 14 in one year. It is less about size than growth rate. Yes spiculation can be consistent with malignancy, but again that’s not a consistent correlation.
Fwiw, my pulmonologist handed me over to a thoracic surgeon and then backed away. I would get a surgeon and tell him you would like him or her to recommend an oncologist should it be needed. You might want both surgical and Non surgical intervention options after you get the pathology result and know what you’re dealing with. and yes I had VAT surgery but removing the lobe it resides in is the gold standard. But what I would do differently is to ask them to do the wedge resection they send to pathology with the tumor and nodes and then give oncology a chance to follow up with radiology or chemo - to prevent losing an entire lobe. But that’s just me.
BUT FOR NOW - take a breath and have the good scotch ! 🙂