nodule in lung

[Daewood1949]

Hi, hope you are all having a good day. I have been told there is a large nodule in my right lung. I saw the thoracic surgeon a month ago and he said the PET scan did not "light up" so the nodule is not growing.

I am to have another PET scan in December. I was a smoker but quit 15 years ago. Also, I had breast cancer 25 years ago and had "too much " radiation.

Do any of you have nodules in your lungs? Is it wise not to operate to remove it-I'm 75 and not wild about major surgery i.e. infection picked up at hospital , slow healing.

thanks for listening

[Mopsey1897]

Hi Daewood. I’m like you. Have a couple of lung nodules, had breast cancer with radiotherapy in 2012, stopped smoking in April 2023, diagnosed with emphysema this year and I’m 70. I’m seeing the hospital Thursday for results of a ct scan in April re my nodules and my lung function tests. I don’t think they normally remove nodules unless they grow and are suspicious. Sounds like yours is stable which is good. Try not to worry too much. Could you contact your hospital consultant and ask if they are considering removing it and tell them if your concerns? Take care x

[Daewood1949 in reply to Mopsey1897]

Hi Yoga2011, In Canada, our health care system is different than yours, I think.. The thoracic surgeon did say if I am really worried he can remove them and biopsy them right now but that they did not Light up so were not growing. What did your surgeon say to you?

[Mopsey1897 in reply to Daewood1949]

I didn’t realise you were in Canada. I’m seeing the clinic tomorrow (Thursday) to see what they say about my nodules so I’ll let you know.

[Daewood1949 in reply to Mopsey1897]

Do let me know please! Hope it is good news,Yoga2011.

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[jackdup]

I have a couple of nodules they have been monitoring for about three years. Apparently they are fairly common and most of the time they are nothing to worry about but they monitor them to see if they are growing. I don’t believe they remove them unless they are a problem.

[Nimrod2]

I agree with jackdup. I had a CT scan this year after a bad respiratory infection. I have nodules in my Lungs and apparently I also had them in 2017 when I last had a scan. They hadn't changed, so nothing to be done. They are not unusual. I am a similar age to you Daewood 1949 and agree that an operation is not desirable. Take care. 😊

[Daewood1949 in reply to Nimrod2]

Nimrod2, are you also in England? So glad they have not changed for you. These things are scary and it is wonderful to have this forum to talk things over with others, isn;t it?

[Nimrod2 in reply to Daewood1949]

Yes this forum is really good. I am in England. Look after yourself.

[suzy-lou]

Hi Daewood. I had a chest X-ray which showed "a shadow" ( scary!) and was referred very quickly to the chest cinic for a CT scan. This showed a cyst and the physician just said they would keep an eye on it. Three months later, a repeat scan showed it had shrunk with no intervention.

I was told that there must be a quite number of people walking around with lung nodules which are only picked up after routine investigations for something else. Try not to worry - leave that to the doctor - and if you do need reassurance, talk it over with them.

Keep well xx

[Daewood1949 in reply to suzy-lou]

suzy-lou, we are short of doctors here so mostly see a nurse practitioner. She is the one who sent me to a thoracic surgeon after CT scan showed nodules. I'm so glad your shrunk.

[Mopsey1897]

hi Daewood my main nodule had shrunk so good news. I have a couple of other smaller ones which they will monitor with scans every 6 months to a year x

[Ern007]

I have a nodulr in my right lung, I had a thorax CT yesterday to see if it had grown, the worry was it had spread from my bladder cancer, so I am waiting results. Lots of people have them, by far most are not malignant.

[Daewood1949 in reply to Ern007]

thank you Ern007, sorry to hear you had bladder cancer-did you have any idea it might be that?

[Ern007 in reply to Daewood1949]

Be Bladder Cancer? Yes the bleeding and was misdiagnosed three times. My GP stooped the and got me a ungent appointment with Urology. I was to have treatment one time and was taked at one side, the dreaded walk to the consulting room, treatment had been stopped, because something had shown on my lung, my CT yesterday was a follow up - At last someone who knew what they where doing.