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.