Ground-breaking trial pilots new tests to detect lung cancer earlier

I’ve just had surgery for Stage 1 Grade 2 breast cancer but a CT scan found two very small nodules on lungs. They’ve said they are so small but are going to do ct scans every 6 months for a while, just to make sure they don’t change. As well as the annual mammograms.

Brilliant article, well done to all at CRUK, fantastic research work and amazing work by all the doctors, nurses and admin staff.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2019 which had spread to my lymph nodes. Had a CT scan of my thorax, abdomen and pelvis as part of staging and TNM, plus bone scans etc.
Three nodules were detected in my upper and lower lobules of my lungs. I was targeted with Chemo straight away, then surgery followed by radiotherapy. Then 18 months of immunotherapy drugs and letrozole.
A follow up scan after chemo showed no real changes to the nodules so I was told if they had been cancerous they would have changed/shrunk having been blasted with chemo for the breast cancer.
My notes say the lungs should be monitored but I’ve had no further CT scan since that chemo finished. My notes say they should be monitored!
I receive yearly mammograms.
I do wonder if I should pester and get them checked out – it just seems so hard to get these scans. I’m sure I’ll be told if I’ve got no issues or worries to not pester but should I based on my clinical history??

Keep up the trials!

I first noticed a cough with my partner on the 22nd of May 2020, subsequently when he came home from sea , he was a ships captain (due to covid he’d been away for eight weeks) on the 19th of June 2020 I noticed a significant weight loss (1 and a half stones) of course being a man “it’s nothing”, I contacted his GP on 24/6 and said I was really worried about him as he was living on cough medicine , I was told I couldn’t book an appointment for him he had to do it himself , finally two days later I persuaded him to make an appointment and go to his GP. COVID certainly impacted on his treatment , he missed a vital consultation with his lung consultant due to being hospitalised in one hospital who’s computer didn’t “speak” to his main hospital. It then took two weeks to get another , all the while he was going downhill fast , he was hospitalised on 24/8 due to a collapsed lung, I was only allowed to see him for an hour a day, I pleaded to get him home, and finally he got home on the 3rd of September and passed away in my arms on the morning of Sunday 6th September 2020. He died six weeks after diagnosis , with no back up from our GP nursing staff as the hospital hadn’t informed them he was home , no palliative care, and the MacMillan nurses were worse than useless, he saw them for five minutes on the 25th of August, his second day in hospital for the last time and we never heard from them again . Yes he’d been a smoker, but he’d been stopped for 15 years , his mother and seven of her siblings had all passed from cancer , and I have since found out he was eligible for screening from the age of 60 , due to his family history , why was that information not passed to him. He was only 65, the most loving and caring person I have ever met , he never got to enjoy the retirement he’d worked all his life for (since he was15) . Please , if his story can save someone else , don’t wait , contact your GP, push for your results , demand answers , demand screening , don’t let my Kenny have died in vain xx

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This is all very well and fantastic news – but first your GP needs to take you seriously. My husband was fobbed off for nearly a year by various GPs until I insisted on tests as his health was deteriorating rapidly. He was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer and died six months later aged 50 leaving me and our two children. The GPs were arrogant and completely unhelpful. My experience shows me this hasn’t changed and since Covid, it’s virtually impossible to get near a GP. I suggest you put more pressure on GPs in the first instance.

Excellent idea, my husband had a ct scan chest and pelvis, they saw prostate cancer but missed the lung cancer. It was picked up 5 months later by a 2nd scan, 1b, an op followed now terminal.

Very good and I agree entirely with more advanced testing early, I lost my wife due to late diagnosis . I am currently donating to the new Christie build in Macclesfield .

Really great news that trials are going on for lung cancer, both my grandmother & Mum died of lung cancer, and their was no noticeable signs until it was too late. I wish you every success in your trials.