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"Bump" on Chest X Ray

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CT Scan scheduled for Friday. Any chance this could be something other than the C word? Anybody else start out like this?
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Um, does my post bring back bad memories or is it just too vague to be answered? Had CT scan. Guess will go from there.
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Moon, CT scan will tell more! Take it one step at a time and hope for best. If it is cancer I'm sure they will waste no time letting you know. It could be something other than!
Hang tough!
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Thanks Digi of course you are right. It is hard to wait even a couple of days with the looming possibles. Perhaps a better question is WHAT OTHER CONDITIONS CAN A BUMP ON A CHEST X RAY BE??
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Can't answer that! I'm not a physician nor radiologist. But it seems like you've already made up your mind of what it is!??!
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Well I know I sound rediculous, but on the internet resource pages tonight it says that if a "bump" is visible on routine chest x ray it is already advanced. I am admittedly creeped out and sensitive on this thing because my Dad passed three years ago, diag'd stage 4 and made it through a miserable 6 months before going to God. So guess that is still fresh, and this news is just not welcome. Here's hoping it is a big wake up call to live healthy, and simply a bump of scar tissue. Thanks for watching the post and responding. :):)
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You don't sound ridiculous! But wait for the results of the CT before running with this!
My prayers are with you!
God Bless*
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My husbands cancer first showed as an abnormality on chest x-ray. He had emphysema. Then it showed on CT Scan as abnormal. they had to then do a pet scan ($4,000) so it would show in color if it was for sure cancer. It was. Three months later another Pet scan showed it had spread. He could not have any treatment because of the emphysema he did not have that much good lung tissue left.
You are young, you can have treatment, do not worry yourself untill you have all the facts. There are new treatments, the oncoligest said if it were not for the emphysema he was sure my husband could have been cured and he is almost 83 years old.
I will add you to my prayer list and hope it turns out well for you
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