Lung Cancer Support Group

I too had a lung nodule.
I reduced its size by a daily helping of anti-inflammatory berries.
Go to my pictures OR Go here:
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Best wishes,
Ossie

I understand how nervous this is making you. 8 mm is very small about the size of an average pearl and most likely wouldn't have showed up on an Xray. It is quite normal to wait three months between CTs to do so any sooner would probably not show significant changes.

Should your next CT show increased size then it would be time to evaluate what to do next and what type of specialist to see? From this point there are many options, my team and my husbands was the same and consisted of a Pulmonologist, Oncologist and Thoracic Surgeon. Our PCP is kept in the loop because even cancer patients have other problems not related to their cancer.

My husbands was found at 1-1/2 cm and considered to small for any biopsy. A PET scan was done which indicated by the uptake that it was probably cancer. He opted for VATS (Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery) biopsy in the hospital. Had it not been cancer they would have sewed him up and sent him home the next day. But it was cancer and they continued with the surgery removing a section of his upper left lobe. He was stage 1A

My lung cancer was found by accident and misdiagnosed pneumonia. I got a second opinion it was a 7-1/2 x 6-1/2 cm tumor. I had no options but to get the thing out, at that size I was very lucky surgery was the recommended option, it's the gold standard for lung cancer. That was three years ago then I was stage 1B.

Obviously in a lung cancer group, people are concerned about tumors, and the spread and progression while undiagnosed. What the doctor recommended is standard, since the growth is very small, and the patient is asymptomatic.