Hi there, I am devastated to be writing this but my mum was diagnosed with lung cancer 4 weeks ago & has just had her biopsy results for a mass on her adrenal gland which has come back as secondary cancer. She also has COPD. I am so scared as I've been reading up & fear that I am going to lose her sooner rather than later. She has to wait another 3 weeks for the oncology report to see what type of treatment she can have, although she has been told that there is nothing that can be done apart from alleviate the symptons & try to keep her as pain free as possible. In the meantime she could rapidly detioriate. She has already told me that if any treatment is likely to make her feel more ill than she does already then she will not accept it. She is only 66 & I am not ready for her to leave me yet. I've read that without treatment the life expectancy after diagnosis is only 3 months. She doesn't want to know how long she has left but I feel it would benefit me to know as much as it would pain me too, but I live an hrs drive away from her & feel I need to spend as much time as possible with her, but it's so difficult as I still have 2 children at school who depend on me. Is anyone else dealing with anything similar. Many Thanks Sheryl