Surgery not now an option

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Hi 

I’m new here

i was diagnosed with lung cancer in Jan and was supposed to have surgery yesterday to remove the middle lobe of right lung. However the CT scan taken earlier that week showed cancer had spread and surgery was no longer an option 
I have an appointment with oncology next week. 

My head is in a spin and I don’t know where to go from here, I was so focussed on surgery 

  • Hi ya. I can not begin to understand how you must be feeling. All I can say is Try not to think the worse. Cancer treatment has come on so much. Easy for me to say as I'm only a wife, carer of a wonderful man going through lung cancer. If you have no hope you have nothing. When he was diagnosed last year at 58, I was so angry all the time. He's treatment has far from been smooth but you can only think positive. I'm still angry but hopeful. Speak to the cancer team. Hope you get some sort of answer soon 

  • Thank you so much for your reply. I think you are right about hope, need to hang on to that no matter what 
    I too feel angry, that I would get lung cancer when I’ve never smoked. I get angry when I think about all the things my husband and I have planned for our retirement and that might be taken away. 
    but I also think anger is toxic and steals the precious time left so I try to let it go. 
    I hope your husbands treatment continues to be hopeful x