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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
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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Good point about CT scans that are calibrated to pick up nodule size...I noticed the one they did before VAT surgery mentioned it had been calibrated to pick up nodules and in fact was more detailed that the original CT scan one month before at a different place. Regarding your 5mm size was that described as solid, part solid sub solid??
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I don't plan on waiting at all. On Monday I'm having a suspicious bone lesion removed from my shoulder. If it's benign then we will proceed. If it is cancerous then I guess it's a whole new ball game. I was just going back an forth on radiation vs surgery, since I have the options.