@chris, welcome to Mayo Connect. I'd like to ask you a few questions. Who told you that ground glass isn't dangerous? Have you recently been diagnosed with lung cancer? Do you have symptoms at all?
Ground glass is an appearance on a CT of a cluster of lung cells that have changed. It can be, and often is, a precusor to lung cancer. Usually adenocarcinoma of the lung. I do not know if this type of cell change shows up anywhere else.
@merpreb my son in law, age 62 facing same issue. Now hospitalized for pain control from spine Mets from adenocarcinoma Rt lung developed 5 years after ground glass lesion discovered in Rt upper lobe. The primary developed here.
@merpreb my son in law, age 62 facing same issue. Now hospitalized for pain control from spine Mets from adenocarcinoma Rt lung developed 5 years after ground glass lesion discovered in Rt upper lobe. The primary developed here.
@drrws , I'm sorry to hear that your family is facing this disease. It can be unpredictable and painful. I'm assuming that he was being monitored over the past five years. Is he scheduled for any treatments, other than the pain management? Hopefully they can get the cancer under control, and that will give him some pain relief too.
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@merpreb my son in law, age 62 facing same issue. Now hospitalized for pain control from spine Mets from adenocarcinoma Rt lung developed 5 years after ground glass lesion discovered in Rt upper lobe. The primary developed here.
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