Hi Lilymaree,

I’m sorry you have received such worrying news My sister was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2005. We were never given an actual staging but it had spread to several lymph nodes,the pericardium and the diaphragm. She had a total left pneomonectomy and survived until late 2020. She never had a recurrence of her cancer but died from pulmonary fibrosis in her right lung. When she was first diagnosed we felt so hopeless as she was in her sixties and really ill we didn’ think she would survive the surgery however she did well and saw her grandchildren grow up. 

Try not to pay too much attention to the survival rates on the websites they are often using old statistics and treatments have progressed so much in recent years. I hope you get some good news after all your tests have been completed. I will be thinking of you.

Take care

Helen

Helen ,

 thankyou for your reply ,it has helped me a lot 

Helen ,

 thankyou for your reply ,it has helped me a lot