@dablues82, I'm sorry about the Google confusion. You mentioned using it in your original post. Waiting and not knowing is the hardest part of maybe having cancer.

I don't see any mention of metastasis in the pathology report. The biopsy came from your upper left lobe and mentions pulmonary origin. Pulmonary origin means from the lungs. Metastasis is when the original cancer has shown up in another organ, like when my lung cancer showed up in my brain 2 years later.

The pathology report mentions CK7, CEA, TTF-1, and Napsin which are all markers used to identify disease. The presence of Napsin, in particular, indicates the possibility of adenocarcinoma, the most common type of cancer.

I've been dealing with lung cancer for 6 years now, and I have multiple friends who have survived definitive diagnoses, which you don't have yet, for even longer. My philosophy is that until I have a definite cancer diagnosis, then I don't have cancer. I've had 2 false alarms in the last year alone when my Oncologist became concerned about things that turned out to be nothing months later.

I know it's hard, but try not to worry about things that haven't happened yet. Your doctor may be waiting for your small tumor to stay the same or change in some way that provides a definitive diagnosis.

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