On May 17th I had a chest xray because of an injury, it showed two broken ribs. Last week the nurse from the Emergency Room called and said the xrays showed a HUGE MASS on my left lung, and said I needed to get a CT scan. I am new to this state , so I went to a referral dr a few days after the first xray, he listened to my lungs and said everything was just fine. So after the nurses call I called his office , they gave me a order for a new set of xrays. Yesterday, the nurse from the doctors office called and said the preliminary report from the xray dept. showed Pneumonia in the left lung. However when the nurse showed the doctor the report, he crossed the Pneumonia diagnosis out. SO I am totally confused as to what the heck is going on, and ofcourse I have been searching the web trying to get as much information as I can. Could an xray showing a HUGE mass, actually be cancer and not the Pneumonia? Or could it be a cancer that maybe I have had in another part of my body that has spread to the lungs, and just shows up as Pnemonia? I am 55 yrs. old, and and have been in really good health all my life with four normal childbirths, a toncillectomy and a gall bladder removal, and am not on any kind of daily medication other than an aspirin a day. And I do smoke, two packs a day for twenty years, yep I bet it's cancer huh? Well I really appreciate any information that you can give me. Thanks so much.