Hi Katy sorry to hear about your sisters diagnosis. I'm glad she has a positive attitude because any thing less can sure bring a person down. If she was terminal the doctors would of definitely told her so she could start making plans if you get what I mean. And if there going straight into chemo and no operations etc then all must be okay. I would go to her appointments with her in the future to get a clear view of what there saying so you can go home rest of mind knowing exactly what's going on and just being there for your sister. My sister just had a double mastectomy for ductal carcinoma Breast cancer and luckily she should be fine. Though she's 72 so there holding back on chemo until she's perfectly fine. Don't worry about it because it's not worth losing sleepless nights over. If its on her left lung and not the other then the stage can't be that high but im not a doctor and I'm just surmising from the things you have said Take care -Diane x

Hi CandyKate

I'm very sorry to see that your sister has been dagnosed with a cancer on her lung. We found that it was really important to have somebody attend appointments with you as you often don't take in what's being said or you half hear things and make the rest up as you go along! In my husbands case the consultant told him that his cancer was incurable when they gave us the diagnosis and that he would be treated with a view to controlling the disease. He wrote to our gp and also sent a copy of the letter to my husband.  This letter gave us a staging of his cancer and detailed the treatment offered. Do you know if your sister requested a copy of all letters going to her gp to be sent to her also?  I'm assuming your sister has had a biopsy to confirm the type of cancer? She should be asking if she's been tested for mutations asking this could open up other treatments for her.  I hope you get the answers to your questions and wish your sister well.

Warm wishes

Netty