I'm sorry to hear you're going through this, @vandeb, and have had to travel so far to get it treated.

It's not unusual for looking for cause and effect when dealing with these situations. Have you discussed your concerns with your providers? With SCC in the lungs, there are other potential contibuting factors that might be explored.

Personally, I find when I ruminate about what led from there to here, I think of a quote I read by Michal J. Fox: "Acceptance doesn't mean resignation. It means that something is what it is and there's got to be a way through it". Knowledge is certainly power, and we're all gaining a lot of that here, while also are hopefully learning to go easy of ourselves. Perhaps that's an equally important component of the healing process.