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I spoke with a Thorassic Surgeon last week. He's working with my Pulmonologist to get my most recent PFT test, and assuming that checks out, then he's recommending we move forward with a Wedge Resection ASAP in January. Hoping to have things lined up perhaps as soon as later this week. While the Surgeon isn't an Oncologist, his opinion is that I'm at Stage 1A.

You're right. No biopsy as of yet, although that's one of the options if the wedge resection isn't recommended as the go forward strategy. Only other nodule is a 2mm calcified one that was present in each of the last two CT scans. Will definitely have family there for the consult and along the way.

I was diagnosed with cancer a couple days ago. I'm so new into the process, that I'm not sure what stage I'm in. I'm hoping to get as much info as I can as I move through the process. I ran into your site and it seems like a great site with lots of good info. Some background on my condition: My diagnosis came through after a PET scan revealed: Spiculated left upper lung nodule demonstrates mild increased uptake with maximum SUV of 3.8. Nothing was identified in any of my nodes and organs, and the rest of the analysis has a lot of wording around normal uptake. The PET scan was ordered after my pulmonologist saw an increase in size of one nodule from my 2013 CT and 2015 CT scans. The nodules grew from 1.2 x 0.7 to 1.4 x 1.0 x 2.6cm I have a consult with a Thorassic Surgeon next week to see if a Wedge Resection is an option (I've got moderate COPD, so there's some concerns whether I'd be able to handle the surgery).