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upset caregiver: what do these results mean?
Cancer | Last Active: Oct 12, 2021 | Replies (116)Comment receiving replies
Hello @scared2 and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I can certainly understand your concern regarding your husband's results. As you may know, Mayo Connect is a patient support network. We are not medical professionals and therefore cannot give medical opinions or advice. You will have to talk with your doctor in order to understand these results.
Cancer recurrence is always frightening. I can understand that seeing a nodule on the lung would be cause for concern. Often, nodules do not actually represent cancer.
I would encourage you, as much as is possible, to try and relax until you can talk with the doctor and get some more information.
We do have other members on Connect who have dealt with lung nodules. I would like to invite @merpreb to this discussion. She can undoubtedly put you in contact with others who have lung nodules.
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Thank you @hopeful33250 for my invitation to this discussion.
@scared2- I would also like to welcome you to Mayo Clinic Connect. I can't imagine how difficult this is after going through throat cancer. I am truly sorry.
When a first cancer appears it feels like a tsunami. I felt this way with my first cancer. Just like your husband, I was a good doobie and did everything that I was supposed to. I literally changed my life around. On my tenth anniversary, after having a celebratory lunch with my surgeon and my husband, my new CT, which arrived the day after, revealed another lesion. It showed a different type of cancer in a different part of my lung. I was horrified and shocked. How could this be?
But when we get cancer for the first time it opens up an entire world of possibilities that can happen in our bodies and metastasis is, unfortunately, one of them.
First off it looks like your husband has a possible infection in his throat. There doesn't seem to be any cancer there but there is swelling. The nodules that have shown up do indicate cancer.
Have you and your husband spoken to the doctor since this test result to see what treatment he suggests now? Both of his nodules are small at ,59" and .0968". But, it's more important what is going inside a nodule than its size.
Please check this site out to actually see photos of the terms that are used in his scan results. I found that knowledge is very powerful in gaining some control over our feelings of fear.
https://www.radiologymasterclass.co.uk/tutorials/chest/chest_home_anatomy/chest_anatomy_page5
Have you been in contact with your husband's doctor to see what he wants to do?
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not a problem. please do.