@donnatownsend, I’m glad to hear you are getting the molecular/biomarker tests. It should be standard of care, but still doesn’t always happen. If you are able to tolerate the symptoms that you are experiencing, it may be worth waiting for the results. If they identify a mutation the treatments can be significantly different than for other lung cancers.
My cancer is an adenocarcinoma, and is caused by the ALK mutation. If they gave up on the lymph node biopsy, did they do a liquid/blood biopsy for the molecular test?