Anyone thought sm lung nodule is nothing but turned to be mets?

hope all goes well

Being vigilant post first bc diagnosis and not just do only followup mammograms when all clear is given is is what is important all the best

Just got the report, I've got lesions in both lungs, both kidneys, adrenal glands and some bones. I was on my way to ER because I've been in so much pain so I'm here now. Not sure if they're going to keep me overnight and start chemo or not. I'll talk to oncologist tomorrow to discuss treatment plan. Please pray for me and My husband Ke

I am so sorry to hear that. Praying the chemo kicks the cancer away do you'll be NED, and hoping your pain is controlled soon

Here's the link to the lung mets topic:

Lung mets

hi jackboo sorry this has happened you will probably have follow up biopsy to determine if breast cancer related or not. Good luck with follow up tests.

Hi

I am also in the position of wondering. Told on Fri that I have a shadow on one lung only that is 29mm. Would be great to hear of folks who had scares with this and it turned out to be something else. Perhaps that is just wishful thinking though.

All the very best to you.

Liz

Had mastectomy bilateral Dec. 2016. Fears of reoccurence since, as no chemo or radiation indicated. Long story short, need surgery to repair my mastectomy scars (make them flatter) and pre-op chest xray has showed 2 lung nodules. Going tomorrow for CT scan. Praying!

I hope this is okay to be posting here...

I am writing for my mother, who after they did a CT scan found tiny nodes scattered through her lungs. Her breast surgeon who found the nodes in the scan, believes that they do NOT look like metastic bc, but wanted her to go to a pulmanoligist just to check it out. She said it could be a disease called "Sarcoidosis". My mom went on Thursday to see a pulmanoligist......

While in the appointment with the pulmanoligist, My mom brought up the fact that her doctor, the breast surgeon, said it could be sarcoiodis, which is known to mimic breast cancer mets. The pulmonolist said, you don't live in the midwest (we live in Idaho) so that can't be it. (She has spent alot of time in the midwest as well as North Carolina, Louisiana and was born in Peurto Rico, which are also areas sarcoidiosis is know to be found). But my mom does have some of the symptoms of sarcoidosis, such as, achy hands and ankles (which she was scared for her bone scan to come back because she has been having a lot of joint pain lately). It came back clean. She also has the symptom of tiny scab like figures on her hands and one on her wrist, which the pulmonoligist just said, thats a scratch.. It is not a scratch because my mother has been watching it grow and has been worried about it since her bc diagnosis 8/03/2017. The achey hands and ankles has been a thing she noticed about a year ago. Which she has also read rheumatoid arthritis can lead to these nodes in your lungs as well. The pulmanologist pretty much just said, well, you have breast cancer, so it is probably cancer and sent her on her way.

After hearing that we did a lot of research. We have found granulomas can form from many things, such as scaring from past infections.

As of yesterday, we got a call from the breast surgeon who had showed 2 of the radiologist in her office, whom also said, it doesn't look like breast cancer mets. She then showed it to an all body radiologist, who also agreed it didn't look like mets, but it needed to be checked out because they can't factor bc mets out without totally knowing. At this point we know we have to be realistic that it could be lung mets, but we also just dont know who's answer e]we should be more confident in. We are trying to stay hopeful. My mom didn't feel extremely comfortable with the pulmanolist and the way she pretty much layed it out there without even testing it first.

We are heading down to MD Anderson on Monday, where they got her in for a lung biopsy and she will hopefully know as soon as she gets out of the biopsy.

Has anyone else had any problems like this?

Thanks in advance!

I would get a second opinion. Glad you are going to MD Anderson.

KBeee, we were very lucky to have a family member be on a board at MD and get us in. It has been nearly impossible to get any responses from some doctors offices and it takes weeks to get into any appointments needed in Idaho and Washington. What took her 6 weeks to get scheduled and set up here, took 1 morning on the phone with MD. The first surgeon she saw wasnt even going to do a CT or bone scan. Luckly she stuck with her gut to get another option.