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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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Lung Center |
Nodule on lung07/14/2008 11:19AM |
My mother-in-law is a smoker and smokes a lot. She was just told that she has a nodule on her lung. She has been coughing up blood for about a month now. Could it be cancer? They are sending her for a PET scan.
This could be lung cancer, although infectious causes are also possible (pneumonia). A PET scan is reasonable. She should consider consultation with a lung cancer specialist—a thoracic surgeon, a pulmonologist, or an oncologist.
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Michael F Reed, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery Division of Thoracic Surgery Department of Surgery College of Medicine University of Cincinnati |
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