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Ir lung nodules are not cancer, what exactly are they?
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Many things: Some are from trapped tissues from old infections such as pneumonia, some are old granuloma or set in inflammation that has died down (like a chalazion in the eyelids, or old scars.
Answered 1/19/2014
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