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Hey all, just wanted to follow up. Had surgery Monday. As diagnosed it was adenocarcinoma. Dr removed a wedge of my lobe and said cleared margins. He also removed lymph nodes. Feeling lucky for the incidental find and choosing the surgical biopsy . Waiting on lymph node results. I have a Follow up may 9th. Thanks for the support.

Pet scan came back with:: right lower lobe/lung base nodule with no appreciable uptake may represent an adenocarcinoma spectrum nodule. Notably, metabolic activity of small pulmonary lesions in this region may not be well evaluated due to diaphragmatic motion artifacts. I asked what the Dr said and they said they still advise removal and biopsy. Does this sound right from this indication above off my PET?

Hi, I had a 6MM incidental find lung nodule, monitored yearly with no growth. On the 3rd year this past February it was 9MM. Pulmonologist said biopsy or remove. I made appt to follow up but visited a specialist from NYU meantime to get second opinion. This DR said biopsy or remove. I am 47, i was a more then 20-year smoker and my father had lung cancer in his 40's. My father had a lobectomy and survived; he is now 80 years old. The second DR told me He advises removing instead of biopsy since its growing it should be removed anyway. I scheduled the removal in April, I have a PET scan scheduled this week. Can someone weigh in on this please, DR said he would remove it and test it while i am in operating room, if it came back as cancer, he would remove more i guess to clean it out and then close me up. If not, cancer, then just close me up.

I have a lung nodule that was an incidental find at 6MM. was scanning every year for 3 years and it didn't grow until this February it is now 9 MM. My doctor said we should remove it or biopsy it. I felt might just be better to remove. I got a second opinion and doctor at NYU said same thing. I am in my 40/s former smoker, my father had lung cancer in his 40's. He survived after a lobectomy and is now 80 years old. Do you think removal is better or should i be taking a PET scan or biopsy before moving forward with removal. DR said he would remove it and test it while i am in operating room and if cancer clean out more, if not close me up.