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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 was also told that the muscle the cut through will take some time for that feeling to go away. I heard like 6 months. My back and side feels like that along with the ribs she worked through. That will be sore for a while. People that have full Lobectomy/Thoracotomy they get some neurotomy and I heard it can take a few years.
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My Thoracic Surgeon felt because of smoking history in the past that whether or not the 1.5 cm nodule comes out benign it should come out anyways. It wasn’t there on my 10/17 CT and she said she didn’t want to want and watch and I agreed. So I had VATS on Monday and frozen biopsy done then. No Cancer in node or lymph, but removed the nodule. There were a small amount of undetermined cells. Pathology said they couldn’t determine if cancer or not and is why she continued with biopsy of lymphs then closed me up. Good luck with yours. It sounds as though yours was caught early.