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Can a teenage smoker get a cancerous lung nodule?

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Lung cancer: It would take longer than a few years of smoking to get lung cancer. But you can get cancer at any age and sometimes the cancer will spread into the lungs.

Dr Encarnacion agreed

Answered 11/10/2014

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2mm sublpureal lung nodule in periphery base.28/f 10yr smoker, quit 4 years ago. Found by accident on ct. Petrified its cancer. What are the chances?

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Can radiologists tell by looking at a lung nodule if it is cancerous or not. Ct showed I have a 5.8 mm nodule I'm a non smoker anything to worry?

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Is it easy for doctors to tell the difference between calcified nodule in the lung and lung cancer mass ? And what is average age for non smoker?

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After waiting 3 months for 2nd CT scan after multiple lung nodules are found in smoker, what is the likelihood of it being cancer? Largest being 7.5m

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Had a ct scan and have a 6mm nodule on the lung radiologist said no follow up if not a smoker should I be worried about cancer I'm not a smoker?

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