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Small lung nodule: Turned out to be cancer after 5 years monitoring
Lung Cancer | Last Active: May 17, 2022 | Replies (28)Comment receiving replies
Hi Merry. March CT scant says "suspicious for multifocal adenocarcinoma, no change from December". I had biggest nodule removed December and that was stage 1b. And now there are four remaining (1 is entirely ground glass, 1 is entirely GG/sub-solid, 2 are part solid). Am waiting for 6 months from surgery CT-scan to see what is next. Would have needed to do needle biopsy of largest one to do radiation at 3 months and that comes with a risk so Dr wants me to wait until 6 months.
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How was it removed?
The reason that biopsies are done is to find out if a lesion is cancerous or not. If I decide to have SBRT done they don't do a biopsy because the lesion is killed so it doesn't make any difference if it was cancerous or not. But it had grown so that says it all and also it wasn't pure GG. The one I have now that is growing is also pure GG so it depends on any changes that show up, if any, in July as to what is done, if anything.
I had the same dilemma with the biopsy. My one bad one is a ground glass, which has a lacey edge, so is not useful to biopsy at this time. Might be also due to size. I am on the six month followup trail, too. I also have thyroid nodules and had an easy needle biopsy of that at a local pathology group office.
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I think that it's a good call from your doctor! My doctor hasn't done biopsies on me for ages. They just zap when one enlarges (if it grows to a certain size that's usually an indication that it is probably cancer.
My next CT is July and they will most likely have to zap. But it's only my 5th cancer lesion in 14 years and my 6th in 24. Not bad! Right?