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Spiculated Lung Mass: Monitoring

Posted by ashscott1012 @ashscott1012, Apr 17 12:32pm

My husband had an incidental finding of a 3.1 CM right middle lobe mass in Jan. Prior to that, we had the flu over Christmas and he had severe symptoms. He saw the pulmonologist after the finding who stated that she believed it was an infectious process from the flu. He just had a followup scan, which has been 3 months, and the mass is now 2.5 CM, but the report stated it was a slight reduction and this does not rule out neoplasm and needs a PET scan. He's very healthy and has never been a smoker with no symptoms of being sick. If this was cancerous, would it have even reduced in size and if it was an infectious process, would this not have cleared up by now? He follows up with the pulmonologist next week.

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Lisa, Volunteer Mentor | @lls8000 | Aug 10 3:24pm
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I wanted to update: he had another followup with a slight decrease to 2.3 CM. The pulmonologist scheduled a bronchoscopy for Fri to see what is going on. She said if this was infectious afterall, it should've cleared up or close to it by now and believes something underlying is there. She said the reason for the slight decrease is that she does believe he had pneumonia, and that's what we were seeing with the decrease, but whatever this is, it's being stubborn. If malignant, she believes that it could easily be surgically removed.

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@ashscott1012 , it sounds like this is the best plan, and hopefully you will have an answer from the bronchoscopy. The procedure is generally well tolerated and fairly quick. Most of us here have had at least one.
Hoping that you have some conclusive answers soon.

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ashscott1012 | @ashscott1012 | Aug 10 5:11pm
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@ashscott1012 , it sounds like this is the best plan, and hopefully you will have an answer from the bronchoscopy. The procedure is generally well tolerated and fairly quick. Most of us here have had at least one.
Hoping that you have some conclusive answers soon.

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@lls8000 Thank you!

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ashscott1012 | @ashscott1012 | 3 days ago

Another update: He had a bronchoscopy on Fri. We received some results through his chart and it shows so far that his lavage is negative for malignancy. I hope this is good sign. All fungal and bacteria tests came back negative as well. I take it that we also need to wait for the tissue biopsy results.

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Lisa, Volunteer Mentor | @lls8000 | 23 hours ago
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Another update: He had a bronchoscopy on Fri. We received some results through his chart and it shows so far that his lavage is negative for malignancy. I hope this is good sign. All fungal and bacteria tests came back negative as well. I take it that we also need to wait for the tissue biopsy results.

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@ashscott1012 , Thanks for sharing what you've found so far. Step by step. It is good news that they aren't finding malignant cells in the lavage. As long as they got a good tissue sample, and with the size of the nodules they should, those results will add one more piece to this puzzle. Hugs.

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ashscott1012 | @ashscott1012 | 17 hours ago
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@ashscott1012 , Thanks for sharing what you've found so far. Step by step. It is good news that they aren't finding malignant cells in the lavage. As long as they got a good tissue sample, and with the size of the nodules they should, those results will add one more piece to this puzzle. Hugs.

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@lls8000 Thank you so much! I'm hoping that's a good sign.

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