Hi everyone,
I am asking for information for my dad who was this Friday diagnosed with lung cancer. He is 54 years old, a smoker with COPD and asthma.
To give a brief background, in July this year an enlarged lymph node was spotted on an x-ray and things have esculated from there. Following various tests we were told this friday that my dad has a 3.5cm tumor in the top part of high left lung and an enlarged lymph node lower down in the same lobe. They will operate before christmas to remove the full superior lobe of the left lung.
They have given the staging as T2a (or T4 as there is some shadowing behind the tumour that could either be infection or part of the tumour), N1 or 2 and M0. They have not yet given us an overall staging (although from my reading I suspect it to be 3a...) as they will carry out a biopsy whilst operating to get this.
My dad would really like to hear any experiences on life after this procedure, what to expect and what the recovery is like. We know based on the spread to the lymph node that it's likely he will have chemotherapy, any information anyone can share about their own experience of this procedure / diagnosis would be really useful to us.
Many thanks in advance!
Kelly (oldest of 3 daughters!)
