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Latest update from brother: Thoughts on maintenance approach?
Colorectal Cancer | Last Active: Oct 25 10:39am | Replies (7)Comment receiving replies
42-62% of indeterminate nodules detected by are found to be benign after biopsy. Furthermore, 15% of transthoracic needle biopsies result in complications. So often oncologists take a wait and see approach. If the nodules are small there's a good chance that they cannot be sampled and so that you will get a false negative result because good tissue was tested
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True.
After diagnosed with stage 3C colon cancer and having my colon and 108 lymph nodes removed (some malignant), scans found numerous things including 6 spots on the lungs. They monitored them via regular CT scans - they were too small to biopsy - thus the "wait and see" approach. Those spots didn't change over the following 3.5 years. Mayo is now monitoring everything via regular CEA tests.