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Spiculated Lung Mass: Monitoring
Lung Cancer | Last Active: Apr 24 11:19am | Replies (17)Comment receiving replies
Welcome @ashscott1012, it looks like you have received some great advice here already. Our lungs can take a long time to heal. The reduction in size is a good sign. I'm sure you are still worried, but know that some of this is positive news too.
Have you started a list of questions for the pulmonology appointment? Sometimes when the appointment comes, it can be easy to forget everything that you meant to ask.
A few thoughts to get you started:
Does the pulmonologist think a PET is a good next step? Radiology recommends a PET scan. Infections will 'light up' on a PET too. What are we gaining by doing the PET? (Generally, Cancer is going to light up more than infection, but that's not always true.) Once we have results of the PET, what would the next steps be?
How often do infectious nodules/masses appear as spiculated? Can you explain what that means in this case?
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@lls8000 Thank you. We met with the pulmonologist initially in Jan and stated a PET scan would be useless if this was infection. She stated after the followup scan, we would go from there and be aggressive if need be. It's just worrisome that this followup scan is still persistent. We do have more questions to ask when we go Thurs. I'm hoping since she initially thought this was an infectious process, that it's just taking longer to heal. But if so, it just seems it would've decreased a lot more in size than it has.