Hi, I haven't posted before.
Has anyone experience of lung cancer not as a tumour, but in the fluid in the lung? My wife started to have breathing difficulties in September and an x-ray showed fluid in the lung. By the time she was referred to hospital the lung was fillled with fluid and had collapsed and she spent a week having the fluid drained. There was only an improvement for a few days afterwards and she was readmitted to hospital where fluid round the heart and blood clots were detected by CT scan. After a difficult procedure to remove the fluid under local anaesthetic wasn't really successful she had major surgery to remove the fluid and put a window in the heart sac.
She seemed to improve post surgery in intensive care for 2 days, but then became rapidly worse and died just over a week later at the start of November. We're totally shocked and don't really understand the speed of the whole thing. She never got to the stage of having any cancer treatment at all. We haven't really been given an explanation from the medical staff of what happened. She'd had no symptoms before August/September and had never smoked.
Has anyone else experienced something similar? She had treatment for early stage breast cancer earlier in the year, but that was only pre-cancerous DCIS, was treated with surgery and radiotherapy successfully and didn't seem to be related to the lung cancer.
