Do you start immunosuppression for enlarging pulmonary nodules without symptoms, impaired pulmonary function, or extra-pulmonary disease in a patient with sarcoidosis?

First consider whether further diagnostic workup is necessary, to increase your confidence that enlarging nodules, changing pulmonary function, or extrapulmonary disease is due to sarcoidosis. Sarcoidosis patients have an increased risk of cancer in the early peri-diagnostic period, likely due to th...