No operation possible

I Bea, sorry to hear about your mother in law. What was the actual staging, I was diagnosed with T3 N2 M0 staging, the N2 means that the cancer was in local lymph nodes. I think some people have had good results without the surgery and have had chemotherapy and radiotherapy. So the first thing is don't give up hope, try to be positive and get her to be positive to. I only had surgery so I will let others give you advice on the other treatment. Good luck and kind regards Frank.

Thanks, Frank. It's hard to tell, because my parents-in-law are somewhat incurious, and I think they like to have just enough information but not too much.

So I don't know the TNM numbers, but I do know that it has spread to the lymph nodes in the chest. I'll try to winkle some more information out of them but I don't want to step on their coping mechanisms, if they are taking the attitude of not wanting to know every detail.

Definitely trying to be positive. She has a very healthy attitude that she is going to spoil herself and try to make the cancer fit into her life and not the other way around. So I think that can only serve her well in future!

Any other viewpoints would be most welcome, but to be honest it's nice just to chat to other people who are affected and hear their stories. Thanks.