Lung Nodule

These occur fairly frequently, often as a leftover from a previous respiratory infection. Mine was followed up with a repeat scan in three months and was shown to be stable. If you talk to your oncologist, perhaps they will agree to an earlier check in order to relieve your anxiety. Is that also what caused your chest pain?

I had two faint nodules in my lung when diagnosed, but the doctors said they were tiny and very likely nothing. he estimated 70% of scans of cancer free people show a similar false nodule, and they never turn into anything.. they resolve on their own. Hopefully it's something transient and not serious.

I had a new lung nodule/opacity show up on CT right after radiation and the interpretation said “malignancy is unlikely but cannot be excluded” so my Dr did a repeat scan 3 months later to check on it. The area was then characterized as radiation fibrosis. It remains unchanged on my most recent scan of last week. I hope the same for you!

I have two lung nodules, too, both around that same size. They were assumed to be benign and when I had a CT scan 3 years later they remained unchanged.

I have 3. They're following the one that's 6mm, but I also have a 2mm and 3mm. I don't love that there are 3 unexplained things on my lungs (and I'm not really prone to major respiratory things, so can't think of what they'd be remnants of), but they're fairly chill about it since my nodes were negative. They were found in CT right after diagnosis. 3 month repeat was stable so now I do 6 months. My worry is, if they shrink at all now how do they know if they were nothing and went away or if they were cancerous and shrunk in response to the hormone therapy? But as everyone else has said, they seem to be a common finding and generally are no big deal.

I know you posted this a few months ago but I just went through something similar. I had a nodule that had grown from my pre-chemo scan, to my scan done after my second chemo. I was sent to a thoracic surgeon for further investigation. He put me at ease at our first meeting, stating it was far more likely an infection than a metastasis but, to be certain he ordered a CT guided needle biopsy. I was gowned and all hooked up - IV in, oxygen mask on, finger pulse on, and blood pressure cuff on. They ran the CT and came back to say there was nothing to biopsy. Had a follow up with the surgeon, and he said that it was an infection that cleared itself up. I was completely asymptomatic. But he said that the chances that it was a metastasis were .0001%. Protocol dictates that I have another scan in 3 months but he was certain it was nothing to worry about.