My wife has two very small nodules in lower right lung abs a small area of thickening near an airway nearby. This was discovered during a CT scan as she has suspected vasculitis. The original consultant was prepared to wait three months and check things were stable with another CT scan as she though it was most likely inflammation related to the vascular stuff. After discussion with her colleagues she phoned to say they had decided to do a bronchoscopy to get a fuller picture. She has no red flag symptoms and is a non smoker and geeks well. They said her breathing test was excellent but I am still worried. Is there a reasonable chance it isn’t cancer? She got the procedure done today.
Hi John0294 I am very sorry your wife is undergoing these tests. I can understand how worried you both are at the moment whilst waiting for results. A bronchoscopy will definitely give the doctors a clear picture of what is going on. Nodules can easily turn out to be nothing to worry about, and I would take it as a positive that the doctor wanted to wait 3 months initially. It sounds like the thickening at the airway might be the reason they wanted to double check with a bronchoscopy. I would be happy that this was happening to hopefully put both your minds at rest.
I hope your wife is feeling ok after the procedure today. I hope there is not too much time to wait for the results. The waiting is definitely the worst part.
Take care
Sorry I haven't come across this in my diagnoses, I can only tell you about my experience.
I was diagnosed with womb cancer when I was 39, the term thickening was used then to explain the womb lining, which is where they discovered a tumour. When it came back 5 years later in my lungs, they only ever used the term tumour in the bronchial airway, and they said there was multiple tumours scattered in both lungs. The term nodule or thickening was not used.
My Father had nodules discovered in his lungs during an x-ray. They thankfully turned out to be harmless, but I did think at the time , here we go again!
I don't know if anybody else in the group has had thickening mentioned during diagnoses?
On the online community we do have an ask an expert section where you could ask someone with more medical experience than us. I'll put a link here for the ask_a_nurse page for you.
Take care
Hi Mario11 welcome to the group, but so sorry you find yourself here. I too had endometrial cancer, but mine is endometrial stromal sarcoma which I now have mets in my lungs.
I am so sorry that the ct scan has picked up a shadow. I think we all worry around scans and results, but a PET scan does sound like the best way forward to see if there is anything there or not.
Do you have a date for the PET scan yet?
