Thank you Colleen! I love your comments and all your guidance.

Thank you so much. I so appreciate this. We are dealing with the Boulder fires right now but I will get on this in a couple of days. Thank you!

Thank you. I am considering a second opinion. I am so unsure. But my oncologist did say it was okay to get a second opinion. I see what some people are going through for example getting radiation done. My tumor was small (stage 2B). I asked about radiation and was told no that is not an option. I really feel like if I had radiation even though they had clean margins I would be less likely to have a recurrence. I went about 9 months. I now have had a second recurrence. After doing chemo for a year. It is in the same place and has not spread. Once I stopped chemo it came back only two months later. My CA 19-9 was elevated and went up every month. I needed a break. This recurrence happed in August and I had radiation. A single dose high level. Scheduled for chemo again in early Nov.

My local docter didn't seem interested in doing a LC Screening test. I made an appointment with a teaching hospital in their Pulmonology Dept. The docter recommended the screening because of my history. Because of the findings I had to have it repeated in 12 months. At the second screening I was diagnosed with poorly differentiated Squamous LC. It was less than 3 cm, and the PET scan was clear. I had a VATs resection, and now have been NED for 6 years.
I had an appointment with the local docter later. He said he should bring his patients up to the teaching hospital, and that the local hospital wouldn't have offered me surgery. I think that second opinion gave me time.