the cancer surgery (lobectomy, resection)

Well, Saturday morning they removed my mom's lower lobe of her Right lung, and removed a wedge of tissue in the upper R lobe. The pulmonary oncologist/surgeon said she is considered Stage 4 because there were two foci of cancer, most likely not metastasized one from the other. That scared the shit out of me. Stage 4 prognosis is... well, the prognosis is you'll be dead in less than 2 years.
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