Hi, I'm Sandy. I just found out in May that my low dose CT scan showed a nodule. Since then, I had surgery on May 29th.. a wedge resection. It had not spread to the lymph nodes, and they seem to think that they got it all. They said it was adenocarcinoma and staged me at 1B (I'm assuming it's B instead of A because the nodule had extended slightly into the pleural wall).

My pulmonologist didn't think chemo etc, would be needed unless I really wanted to. I didn't.

I looked up recurrence rates for NSCLC, and it wasn't very encouraging! I'm still having continued pain now in September for my robotic surgery I had at the end of May. It took me quite a bit longer than I expected to get up and around.

I guess I don't know if I should say that I have lung cancer, or not. I'm reluctant to say I'm cured, because I think more time needs to go by to see if anything else comes up. They plan on watching me closely.

Anyway.. I'm grateful for this group, and I learned some things in the last couple of months on here. I'm staying away from dot-com websites, and sticking with EDU, gov... That kind of thing and occasionally the British version of our NIH.

Smiles to you all!
Sandy