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What is ground glass on a lung CT scan?
i was told by mayo its nothing serious, any other opinions?
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I agree with you..the crack about genetics is arrogance on the part of the Cardiologist. Genetics is in its infancy. There is a big difference between genetics used in modern medicine and the genetics from sites that connect you with relatives (but as a lay person, I find both interesting)
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Exactly. It's up to the doctor and your team (do you have one?) to determine what is causing them.
Pat, that sounds like a physician who might need further training! And I agree with oldkarl. We are heading in this direction, but as we know, it's slow. If you can switch to a more educated cardiologist you would probably benefit from it.
What does it mean if I have a 5 mm and a 3 mm right upper lobe pulmonary nodules. And a mild central groundglass changes throughout the lungs may be due to poor inspiration or early congestive changes is what my ct scan says. I’m a 43 year old man if it would happen to be cancer does it mean I’m going to die
@jerrypjr1980, I'm so sorry to hear that you are dealing with the stress of this.
Please know that most nodules are NOT cancer. If these are cancer, they are very small at this point, and there are very promising outcomes for cancers that are found at early stage.
What brought you to have a CT? Were you having symptoms, or were they found on a screening test? You're likely young for screening.
What are the next steps that your doctor has planned for you? Monitoring with another scan in a few months?
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2 ReactionsI have a blood clot in my lower left leg post surgery and my surgeon just wanted a scan to make sure it did not move and that is how they found it they want me to follow up with a pulmonary doctor
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1 Reaction@jerrypjr1980, Pulmonology is a good next step. They'll be able to look at the CT to see if the nodules are concerning. Don't be too surprised if they want to wait and rescan in a certain number of months. Many people have nodules that just clear on their own, they are often caused by infections or inflammation. With the recent surgery, you've had some trauma to your body.
Here's some info from Mayo Clinic: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lung-cancer/expert-answers/lung-nodules/faq-20058445
I do have lung cancer, and my latest scan showed a new nodule. I had a biopsy from three different sections of the lymph nodes and the nodule, and all were negative for any cancer cells. So even lung cancer patients can have non-cancerous lung nodules. It's definitely scary but be assured that it's not always cancer. Keep us posted. Take care!
Thank you so very much and take care
Who is liable is not a situation I want to find myself in when it’s me with lung cancer. So best case he’s absolutely right. But there’s a lot of experience here -
Mine included - that says “I don’t know about that”.
I’m six months after surgery for lung cancer and I say get a CT follow up in six months.
Hello godfather2, do you mind sharing an update on your scan of your 8mm lung nodule? I find myself in similar wait and monitor situation with 4 nodules seen on a Sept 2024 scan. All four of mine are ground glass. Have you been told if yours is solid or non solid? It's hard to sit here and wait and see if anything becomes of these things. In my research I get anything from less than 1% chance of malignancy all the way up to 50% chance. That's a huge difference! Hoping you are doing well and in good health!