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Help deciding on whether to send tests to Mayo????

Lung Cancer | Last Active: Mar 16 9:37pm | Replies (4)
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Colleen,
Thank you for your input. I will begin the process of speaking with the Mayo Clinic. I feel more settled on what to do and to hear you think my questions are valid.
SKM

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pb50 | @pb50 | Mar 15 4:33pm

FWIW I agree. But I offer one scenario that doesn’t seem to have been offered.
In my case - a 14mm module in lower left lobe - they also could not biopsy it during bronchoscopy- so we started surgery, they kept me under while they did a wedge with the nodule in it and sent that to Pathologist, who was expecting it. Pathology proved it was malignant and the surgeon proceeded to harvest nodes to test for any metastases and then to remove the left Lower lobe itself. If the pathologist had said not malignant the surgeon would have just stitched me up.
Biopsy from wedge and prepared
to roll into lobectomy if indicated.

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