12 mm Spiculated Nodule upper right lobe

@lls8000
Thanks so very much!!!

Welcome @sandyk8, I'm glad you found Mayo Connect. We are here to support each other. Each treatment/non-treatment choice is highly personal, and there is no room for judgement around these types of decisions that we are forced to make. I'm glad that your family is there to support you.
We have had members that made decisions to discontinue treatment. We may still have some lurking among us. I view your decision as an honorable one. I can only hope I know when the time is right to do the same.
Will you be meeting with oncology? Have you met with anyone from hospice yet?

@breakingbadmom , a re-scan in September sounds like a good plan. Wishing you the best.
You may find the Autoimmune Diseases Support Group helpful too:
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/autoimmune-diseases/

hi @sandyk8 - welcome to Mayo Connect. we're a group of patients sharing information and support, so no one is here to judge your choices. congratulations on your great great grandchild on the way. 🙂 I can appreciate your feelings about not wanting to do any aggressive treatment. I had similar feelings when I was first diagnosed. my pulmonologist encouraged me to have a biopsy to see if there would be other treatment options, and I'm thankful I did. my lung cancer matched a "targeted therapy" medication that was a pill I could take at home. for me, it was worth getting all of the info before making such an important decision. did you meet with an oncologist? what were the recommendations?

I don't know if this is the right group for me. My story is different than any of the ones that I've read about so far.
But here goes. I am a great grandmother, soon to be a great great. Yes, I am old. So please don't judge me for my decision. A CT scan showed two speculated nodules in my right lung,the larger one over 2 cm. A follow up PET scan verified cancer had gone to a lymph node. I am not doing any chemo or radiation. Is that enough to get me kicked off this group? Death does not scare me. At this age there are more funerals than weddings. My family is very supportive of my decision, but this is a journey that all travel alone. There are questions and feelings of what I am going through that it would be nice to have the support of people who have gone through similar experiences. I have never smoked

@lls8000 thanks for replying….
I should have included my history of RA, seronegative, proven by dna studies. It’s been brutal, years of infusions and inability to move. Finally, in some form of “remission “.
Just saw family dr this morning for bp med check. He has bp under control and rest referred to cardiology where he’s pretty sure I’ll be doing stress tests. I have a follow up ct scan beginning of September. RA nodule???

@breakingbadmom, ER visits are certainly stressful! I hope you are feeling better. I always take findings like that outlined in your CT seriously, but that means following up. It doesn't mean that it's bad news. Our lungs are sensitive and can react this way to infection, inflammation, fungus, etc.
Have you had any recent infections, colds, or viruses?
You mention following up with cardiology, was there a recommendation to follow up with your regular doctor for the lung concern? They may help to put this into perspective considering the heart concerns too.

Good day, shortness of breath and high bp landed me in the ER courtesy of my Doctor. Ct showed right upper lobe peripheral 1.4 x 1.0 cm with irregular modular opacity, along with pulmonary hypertension. Quite the duo. Definitely alarming, seeing cardiology in few weeks. Am I right to be concerned about the ct scan. Previous ct scan 8 months prior showed nothing.

In February 2024 an incidental CT scan showed a 15 mm nodule upper right lobe speculated a small nodule lower right. I had biopsy with a brocoscopy that was inconclusive. I chose to have vats wedge resection of the nodules. The larger ones was cancer. None of the other scans, tests showed it but the tumor was on top of a lymph node. I was stage 2A. I had a easy recovery from that surgery within 2 months walking 10 thousand steps a day. I had 4 cycles of chemo and was thankfully approved for keytruda immunotherapy all as adjuvant to prevent reoccurrence. I'm currently on my 6 cycle of keytruda.
My tumor had a KRAS mutation which can be aggressive. Without the wedge to get a biopsy and genetic testing things could've been much worse if I waited.
If you are active now, and stay active the surgery is not terrible. My experience, good luck prayers

I'm not a doctor, but I was not a candidate for surgery when they found a 32 mm nodule in my lung and another 6mm one..I just had 7 weeks of chemo therapy, once a week and 30 rounds of radiation, the cancer is in remission and not showing up on the CT scan, the. 6 mm nodule was destroyed in about 2 weeks... so what you are dealing with is about half the size as mine and stage 1 or 2.. again..I'm not a doctor... but I think you got this..