lung cancer?
My mother in law had surgery for stage 2-3 lung cancer they removed her right middle and lower lobe. The sergeon called and said it was a cancerous toumor and it’s not in the lymph nodes and she needs no other treatment. Am I wrong to be worried all research I’ve seen says her 5 yr survival rate is low. Does anyone know about this? She also has COPD and emphezima.
thankyou
sorry I don’t have alot of info about the cancer when the dr. called her she was too nervous to ask anything. I am assuming it’s non small cell.
You are not giving enough information to be very accurate. There is a HUGE difference between a stage 2 and a stage 3 cancer. It also matters if it is a small cell or large cell, so I ran the stats with a combined histology for females only and the 5 year survival rate is about 53% for a stage 2 and 17% for a stage 3. I assume because you also said no lymph nodes were involved that it is a stage 2.
Saint Thomas Lung Cancer Center – Fox 17 News
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