Big bro called today.
He talked to Moms doctor a couple of days ago and apparently the doctor thinks her condition isn’t good, and that her prognosis will not be good.
Depending on specifics – which we don’t know, should she have cancer, and depending on what kind it is, if she has to have surgery, whether a biopsy or to remove part of her lung or her whole lung, chances are good that she won’t survive the surgery because of her age and the fact that she’s so frail.
Since there are no other xrays/tests to tell us when this thing in her lung started: last week starts the baseline. The doctor has no idea when it may have started, is it small cell (? – 2 different types were mentioned, but I can’t remember them both right now) or the other one. One is localized, surgery can be used to treat, along with chemo, etc. The other one is the spreadable one, goes into the lymph nodes and other parts of the body. Is it fast moving or slow moving?