Hi Petunia, I am so sorry that you've been treated so shabbily but having been on this forum for nearly three years I can tell you you're not alone in how you feel.  Our consultant asked what we thought my husband's outcome was after CT, pet scans, broncosopy and smiled as he asked us that question, our hearts soared thinking that we were wrong about the cancer, he then showed us the result of the final scan and said, it's incurable.  How cruel we said when we arrived home.  Contact Marie Curie and ask for some help or speak to a nurse on this forum there are a lot of people who can help you with your diagnosis.  I'll put you on my follow this thread if you want to post again.  Best wishes, Carol 

I hear you. My consultant was very similar with a prognosis of six months. "Brutal" was the word that sprang to my mind at the time. Luckily for me the cancer nurse smoothed things over and gave me a bit of hope after the consultant had left the room. Initially, however, I was in shock.

You don't say what happened in the following two months... You should have had treatment options discussed, and hopefully some of those options turned out to be not so bad after all.

In my case I'm still around after two years of immunotherapy. Once that had started and the results from the scans came in the consultant suddenly became a lot more human and generally nice, downright cheerful in fact. I figured he had probably spent years training and working to save lives but all too often all he could do was give patients the worst possible news. That's a tough gig, and I'm inclined to cut him some slack. A bit of training on how to talk to his patients would have gone a long way though.

Steve