... I have a 9 mm noncalcified nodule with "mildly irregular margins" on my right upper lobe that was just discovered this week and I'm only 29. ... (7 replies)
... So, I guess it's good news up to now. But I'm going to do something extra between now and May 2012. I'll have another blood test to make sure it's not lung cancer. There is a lab at a university in Chicago that is developing a blood test for lung cancer. The phD was featured on ABC news. ... (7 replies)
... sts none of which show anything sinister. Because my temps haven't resolved I was referred for a CT chest and abdomen. The abdo is fine, but the chest showed 1 x 4mm nodule in my left lung and a 5mm nodule in my right. ... (0 replies)
... I have read that lung nodules are fairly common. ... (8 replies)
... Often I see people come here frustrated with their doctors taking a wait and see attitude when they see small nodules of less then 4mm in their lungs. Note this is mm not cm as there is a big difference in the two. ... (1 replies)
... I have a lung nodule that didn't changed for almost a year. My recent ct scan shows slight changes in size and volume. ... (11 replies)
... mm is too small to do a needle bioapsy. From what I read anyone over the age of 40 a nodule should be suspected cancer till otherwise proven not. The survival rate at this size since it would be classified stage 1 would be very high. ... (11 replies)
... No pneumothorax or effusion. 4mm left lower lobe nodule image 34, static. Bilateral upper lobe and apex emphysematous bleb formation. ... (1 replies)
... Indeterminate and a 4mm left lower lobe nodule. ... (2 replies)
... but lately my chest feels like it is tearing sometimes and very tender sometimes also my back hurts my dr says it can'tt be from the nodule because the nodule is too small .. I am so scared I have lung cancer.. anyone have any advise? ... (23 replies)
... told me that he thinks its a lung fungal infection. The fact is they just do not know, only one way and that is to biaopsy it, he claimed a 4mm nodule is would be hard to find if they operated. I had a surgeon that was going to do it but we had some complications and he could not do it. ... (50 replies)
