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Been awhile since I've been here, new nodule growth

Lung Cancer | Last Active: Oct 2 2:51pm | Replies (27)

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@silvergirl29 , Thanks for the clarification. These are tough situations. I hate the idea of taking out potentially healthy lung tissue, but your history certainly complicates the decision. And you know by now that 3cm is nothing to take lightly. Thankfully I have always been able to get a good biopsy from lymph node fluid (even if it took a couple of attempts with one scare), so I haven't had to face this type of decision.
I'll be interested to hear with the surgeon says. Are you compiling a list of questions for them?

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I haven't heard from surgeon as of yet, I'm suddenly wishing that there was a way to do chemo or radiation because the right lobectomy was hellacious, lung collapsed, got crepitus and blew up like the Michelin Man and my body really hates tape and tubing. What is the biopsy procedure like? I really need to get a new notebook going for this and write the list of questions down because I go blank any suggestions on what I need to know?

🙂 Thanks for your rsponses, I appreciate them but once again life got overwhelming and I haven't been checking in here.I had a wedge resection surgery in May on the left lower and it was stage 2 so I'm glad I got in, I got referred to Gandara at Davis in April and he'd recommended molecular testing on both after biopsy or surgery( i think that was the term) to compare what I now call Thing1 on the right and Thing 2 on the left but after Thing1 in 1/24 I'd landed at an Oncology office that after all this time just last month kind of "broke up " with me using the "it's not you ,it's us" method saying they are radiation oncology and I don't need radiation and they can't order that kind of testing so they were referring me back to Davis and that was a month ago and I'm just frustrated and overwhelmed. I'm feeling pretty good overall , my ribs started hurting with a poking feeling but I have read that is normal and it's only in the 5th month after surgery, I asked onc about odds etc and she said they'd cover it at next appt, but now I don't have one so I still have questions and like I told surgeon no matter how cute he is I would rather not just have him take pieces of my lungs out yearly until there is nothing left lol.