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New here. Guess i have lung cancer looking at my PET

Posted by julie67 @julie67, May 17 5:42pm

Hi all, I started out w/ ground glass 2 yrs ago. They tried to do a biopsy and after they had shot me up and did a CT they decided they couldn't as it was too risky and the nodule had 'shrunk'. In 2 weeks??! Anyway, CT scans every 6 months for 2 years. Last one in OCT 23 it was stable Today I am just getting home from my 2nd PET (first done 6-2022) and see the results. Terrified. My mom just died and left me in a mess, I have no friends or family. I was trying to fix everything because i knew this was gonna happen and now i can't even get to my bed from dragging her stuff in. Now what do i do??! sorry, shaking and freaking out. Googled it and foound this site. SUV of above 13!!!! now what??? julie

1. Highly suspicious right apical nodule demonstrating a maximum SUV of 13.7.
This has increased in size and activity since 2022.

2. Questionable, CT occult region of increased uptake in the right suprahilar
region could represent an abnormal lymph node.

2. No evidence of disease in the left thorax, mediastinum, or below the
diaphragm.

Narrative
PET CT

REASON FOR STUDY: Lung cancer

COMPARISON: 6/24/2022 and CT of the chest 5/2/2024

RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL: 5.5 mCi F-18 FDG intravenously.

Technique: Prior to injection of the radiotracer, the patient's blood glucose is
96 mg/dL. Following injection and an approximately 66 minute distribution
interval, PET scan is performed from the skull to the midthigh. Low dose,
noncontrast CT is performed in the same anatomic distribution for attenuation
correction of the PET scan and to assist in localizing the PET findings.

FINDINGS:

HEAD AND NECK: The visualized brain demonstrates no definite focal abnormal FDG
activity. Salivary, tonsillar and laryngeal activity appears ordinary. No
hypermetabolic cervical or supraclavicular lymphadenopathy is demonstrated.

CHEST: There is a 1.5 cm spiculated, hypermetabolic right apical nodule that
demonstrates a maximum SUV of 13.7 (previously 3.9). A focal area of
hypermetabolic activity in the right suprahilar region demonstrates a maximum
SUV of 5.7. No corresponding abnormality is seen on the grayscale CT images, but
this could represent a nonenlarged but pathologic lymph node. No other abnormal
uptake is seen in the chest.

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kenhorse | @kenhorse | Jul 23 7:54pm
In reply to @julie67 "Thanks so much! I was wondering how long all of you spent in the hospital. Guess..." + (show)
@julie67

Thanks so much! I was wondering how long all of you spent in the hospital. Guess each is different. Which surgery did you have? I read this horrible article today about me being on a vent for a day o4 2 in ICU and all kinds of horrible things! I think it was this one: https://www.healthgrades.com/right-care/lung-removal-surgery/lung-resection I don't know which they are planning yet but I also just bought my life-long dream house 4 hours away. Supposed to close the 30th and that will have me in the hospital most likely. Man, this is some kind of punishmet for whatever i did in life to lose mom, become a probate lawyer basically, go through all that, then buy my lake house and get cancer the same week. Just hoping i can GET to my lakehouse soon after surgery but not soundlng like it. And if I had an emergency, well, i'm 4 hours away. I'm rambling. Been spending all week just trying to clean my house before surgery. Just well, just want what we all want. So how long did it take for you to fully recover and can you do things you did before? I do intense work around here. Like chaiinsawing trees, etc. Today I was ripping up a subfloor. No money so I have become resourceful. Thanks for all the support and advice. Just not knowing if i will be ok/same kinnda makes me want to just live a few months at the new house and able-bodied than live for years and miserable if it goes wrong. Not be tired for yrs but energetic for months or however long until it does whatever it does...cuts off my air? spreads and? i haven't gotten answers except remove it first if my lung capacity is good enough.ok, i am truly rambling. Exhausted from pushing myself to fix/clean this house. thankyou so much and hugs!! such a sweetie to say you'd help!!! I do have one cousin here but he left me at the hospital with no ride. oh, yes, i did have a lung tube for 2 days...july 2-4 after my lung collapsed during biopsy. Not sure i can take that again.....They had to take me down in the basmeent because of my screaming and profanity....lol...the pain! lol julie

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Had a right lower lobectomy on April 3rd of 2023 (first surgery of the day). I was home the next day by 1 pm.

I never needed anything more than acetaminophen and that was only for about 3 days post. Recovery was much easier than my imagination led me to believe and, aside from a small detour due to a chylothorax they had to go back in to fix (yay me, part of the 3%!), I did great. I'm over a year out now with NED and no SOB or any other symptoms.

I was staged at 1a with clear lymph nodes and margins. No chemo (so far)

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