Hi
I lost my mom end of May to metastatic lung cancer.
I am now starting to feel quite confused and not understanding how it happened. She was diagnosed in August 2019 at age 50 and had an op to remove it in the October. Told no spread had mop up chemo then 6 months later may 2020 after just loosing my grandad my mom was taken ill and told it had spread to her brain.
How did they miss it? I've found out that on her original pet scan they had put the 'n' down as a 2 but then afterwards decided it was a 0. Why would they get different results from the pet scan to actually looking? I can't help but feel that they did in fact miss it was in the lymph nodes like the pet scan had shown? And why don't they give you a follow up scan afterwards as in the time it took from the scan to operating the Cancer tumour had already grown a lot. So I can't help but wonder that if that had grown then it could also of spread in that time too.
Also she must of been in so much pain at the end because she had stopped swallowing her tablets the night before and although they gave her an injection on the morning they never got to her in time for the syringe driver.
Sorry for the ramble I'm just not understanding
Sarah
