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I found my 1.5 cm smooth nodule on LRL by accident. Saw a top Chief Professor of Thoracic surgery at University of Chicago theat specializes in LC.. She did a CT, FDG PET and Gallium Dontatate 68 PET. Nothing lit up. She said sone my last Chest CT was done on 10/17 and this nodule was not there she cannot tell if it grew fast or slowing since then. She advised that instead of me going under GA twice, once being ION biopsy and second VATS, she recommended removing it. She said it could be anything, including scar or a Carcinoid/Neuroendocrine because it’s smooth that just didn’t lit up. I do have a history of smoking 1/2 pack for 39 years and quit 13 years ago. I am scheduled for VATS this Monday. Your thoughts please? I feel if I don’t I will worry every day about a sudden growth or change if it comes up benign after frozen biopsy during surgery.
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Similar experience here… smoked 30 years, quit for 10, picked up again 5 years ago and my pulmonologist found 2.5cm x1.5 x 2.5cm2 years ago… PET didn’t light up, 1st biopsy inconclusive… had another biopsy Oct24 and the cryogenic biopsy showed it to be cancer.
Removed in Dec24, still recovering today… lymph’s were clean , toughest part was sensitivity of the skin on my belly near the surgery area.
Just relieved cancer is gone and all appears to be good 😊
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I had my RUL adenocarcinoma nodule removed at Mayo with a wedge resection and I was 80. They looked at the local CT scan and the PET scan and suggested combo biopsy and surgery to avoid me going under GA twice. The surgeon (chair of Mayo Thoracic surgery) told me that it was 80 percent chance to be cancer. They have experience in seeing these things. I thought that one night in the hospital with VAT wedge resection was not that bad and I wanted my lung cancer gone! I was driving my car in a week. The benefit of surgery is that then they can do analysis and tell you what it is. But they have to consider your overall lung capacity, you need enough reserve as surgery makes you lose a little capacity.