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VATS approach for lung nodule surgery: How was your recovery? Pain?
Lung Cancer | Last Active: Dec 30, 2025 | Replies (29)Comment receiving replies
@mamajite They actually counted 30 nodules!!! Good for the reading Radiologist! What size were they?
In 4 years I have had many CT scans and the report description depends on the style of the reading Radiologist.
If 3 were primary (as in multifocal lung cancer where they are thought to be primary not metastasis) what are the others? So the immunotherapy got rid of them?
I am bilateral too, treated 5 nodules to date, there are "many others" but 4mm or less so they don't mention them much.
Lung cancer runs in my family too, only women it seems (my mother, my maternal cousin, and my niece all died from lung cancer and all much younger than me.
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@vic83 they guesstimate the total I think. It's actually really frustrating. I have a relative that is a radiologist and she explained they look for anything growing and comment on the 3 largest nodules. But I've had nodules resolve before my cancer diagnosis and some that seem to just be stable. And now on Tagrisso all of them have gotten smaller and 2 of the 3 tumors resolved. I had a bronchoscopy at diagnosis and my 3 malignant nodules had different somatic mutations - so each one was a primary tumor. They were 12, 14, and 15mm. Now I think the remaining ones are in the 3-7mm range, but I'm not totally sure bc I get such limited info in the radiology reports.
Do you know about the INHERIT study at Dana Farber? I'm participating in it. They are researching familial/genetic cancer, especially lung cancer. My dad and his dad both died of lung cancer (adenocarcinoma/BAC) at age 41. I'm really curious if you might have the genetic T790M mutation like me.
https://inheritstudy.org/