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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)
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@trip03

Merry, at what size do they "zap' them? I have about 4 other small nodules on the same lobe. That is the reasoning for taking the whole lobe. Not sure I like that idea, but it's a 100 percent cure or so I'm told.

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Merry, Alumni Mentor | @merpreb | May 4, 2022

It depends on the hospital, really because not even every CT scan is calibrated the same. My last SBRT targeted a 5MM lesion.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169500218304045
Curative lung cancers are a touchy story. It all depends on the surgeon or technician. I have had 2 SBRTs and 2 lobectomies. The suture line for my second lobectomy lit up in a PET scan. But I was also knicked in my pulmonary artery and that was messy with a lot of blood loss. So I'm not surprised. My hospital is a teaching hospital, it's in Boston. MGH (mass general).

I trust my surgeon to do the absolute best that he can for me so that I will not have any returning cancer. But even he isn't God, as much as I think of him as such. He has been my doctor for 25 years this year and for 25 years with my first cancer being a very fast-growing adenocarcinoma that was caught early.

I wish that I could advise you about lobectomies. How long do you think that you will play around waiting for a certain size?

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