Mixed GGO part solid ULL - 1288016

Hi cweisse,

Welcome to GRACE. It's good to hear that there is no significant growth, and you probably shouldn't read too much into the percentage of solid tissue in the 7.5mm nodule. That's still a pretty small nodule. In addition, many patients have liver cysts, and the lack of growth of the lung nodules tends to lead to the conclusion that those cysts don't represent cancer. I hope the ultrasound results support that conclusion.

It would be easy for me to say that you should not worry, but from personal experience I know just how difficult it is to avoid worry about everything that comes up. But though they should be checked out, each new symptom and each new scan finding is not necessarily cancer; you're just under much closer scrutiny as a result of your cancer diagnosis, and you're going to see and experience many of the same things that people without such a diagnosis also see and experience, you just may have a tendency to attribute them to the cancer.

Keeping an optimistic attitude and staying on an even keel may be goals to strive for, but everyone deals with their diagnosis in a different way and at different times. There may be instances when negative thoughts and feelings predominate, and there's no reason to feel weak or inadequate at those times. It's just a question of trying to put those thoughts behind you and move ahead.

I hope you get good results which ease your mind.

JimC
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