[quote=EricS]I'm by no means an expert, however before reacting to this news remember, it's NOT cancer until a biopsy says it is.

Several different conditions will show on a chest CT, pneumonia (old or new) inflammation etc...it's not necessarily cancer. [/quote]

I agree with Eric! My primary care Doc, prior to my Dx, had been watching a 'nodule' in my lung for years... it shrunk, on it's own, from 7mm to 4mm in a year, then stayed that way for 2 years.

My Oncologist saw it too, in the initial cancer CT scan.

After chemo and radiation, it was gone entirely in my last scan, six months post Tx.


Survivor. 55yr male. Dx 07/09 SqCCa Stage IV, Rt Tonsil, Lt&Rt Lymph Nodes. Aborted tonsilectomy 07/09. Chemo port 07/09. PEG 09/09. Chemo - 3xCisplatin 6xErbitux. RTx35. Tx ended 11/09. CAT scan (clean) 01/10. PET scan (clean) 02/10. Port & PEG removed 04/10.