Many U.S. teachers think the answer is Liberia and Burma (make that Myanmar). Let's give Liberia and Myanmar a break! All countries have adopted the metric system, including the U.S., and most countries (but not the U.S.) have taken steps to eliminate most uses of traditional measurements. However, in nearly all countries people still use traditional units sometimes, at least in colloquial expressions.
Although breast calcifications are usually noncancerous (benign), certain patterns of calcifications â such as tight clusters with irregular shapes â may indicate breast cancer. On a mammogram, breast calcifications can appear as macrocalcifications or microcalcifications. 1  Macrocalcifications. 2  These show up as large white dots or dashes. 3  They're almost always noncancerous and require no further testing or follow-up.
But that doesnât mean that every noncalcified lung nodule is cancerous. These can also be caused by inflammatory and infectious diseases or they can be scar tissue. The definition of a noncalcified lung nodule is that it is a lesion up to 3 cm in size which is totally enveloped in lung tissue. The shape is spherical.If the size is greater than 3 cm, the nodule is considered a mass and not a lesion.hen you have a noncalcified lung nodule that is very small, sometimes the doctors just want to watch it to see if it does grow. If it does grow, the next step would be to have a needle aspiration/biopsy performed.