Hello all: visit with surgeon update! I met with the thoracic surgeon today and he further explained about the paratracheal lymph node. He is meeting on Friday with a team of other doctors as well as the oncologist and will further discuss my situation. Likely I will hear from the Onco either Friday or Monday to come up with a neoadjuvant treatment with platinum-based doublet (PT-DC) and immunotherapy before surgery. A PET scan would follow...if I'm not lit up, surgery would be an option after a rest period. If not a candidate for surgery, then he recommends concurrent chemoradiotherapy followed by immunotherapy for at least 1 year. I found this surgeon to be very nice, as well as the Onco and the Pulmonologist - a great team. I am grateful that this has all happened so quickly and I can thank my Pulmonologist who really got the ball rolling.
Sandy aka Pixiedust