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Hi again Sura, Im glad to hear your nodules are stable at your latest scan. I wanted to follow up with mine too.. I just had my first repeat scan at 6 months yesterday and there has been no change in my four nodules either and no new nodules either. They recommend another scan in 6 months and then annually every year after if no change... (ongoing annual surveillance with low dose ct scan as part of screening program for former smokers) I did however had another finding which was a surprise.. it said "low attenuation masses on liver, largest measuring 5.1 cm. In retrospect these were present on prior scan but indeterminate. Possibly hemangiomas. Recommend MRI of abdomen with contrast dye." Obviously I am going to have an MRI soon, but I am perplexed as to why this wasn't mentioned on my CT scan report six months ago if they were there then? Here we go down the scanxiety rabbit hole again! :((((
Ask your doctor to request a NODIFY LUNG test. It’s a test by a lab called BIODESIX. You can go to their website and it will tell you about it. I had a nodule they were watching for a couple years. Had the NODIFY test and it said 12% chance of cancer. Long story shortened, doc said surgery anyway and it was a benign hamartoma. Several of them. The test, in my case, was accurate. No copay for Medicare and Medicaid. Let us know what you decide.