I'm looking for a bit of reassurance. My husband is 58 years old and has never smoked, he has had exposure to asbestos through his work. He has had a cough for many years which was diagnosed as asthma, although the doctor is now saying it isnt asthma. He had a chest xray in Feb this year and something flagged up, he had this repeated 6 weeks later and there was still a problem. He had a CT scan in April and was told he had a lung nodule, probably nothing to worry about but they would repeat the CT in 3 months time. He had this CT scan at the end of August and a follow up appointment was made for the end of October. They said if anything showed up on the CT scan they would move the follow up appointment forward. Well he got a call last week bringing it forward to next week. My question is if they thought he had cancer would they wait 2 weeks or would they have told him straight away.? Thanks
Hi TattyTeddy sorry you and your husband have this worry. 2 weeks is normal. They will probably give him some idea of what they think it is next week, but i’m sorry to say that he will probably have to have a lot of tests to either confirm cancer or rule it out, and all of this can take several weeks so you may be in for a bit of a wait.
Good luck, let us know how he gets on.
I know it’s difficult, and your brain is going into overdrive, but I would be just second guessing what this appointment can be. Respiratory is very often the starting place for many conditions, and you can either stay in respiratory or get passed to another department like oncology. There is obviously something there that needs investigation, it could be benign, or it could be something more sinister. The fact that he has been monitored so closely this year is a good sign that whatever it is it is small, and will hopefully be sorted very easily.
