ahhhh, crap; mixed news

Well, the pathology report for my mom's "specimens" (i.e. the lower lobe of her R lung, all 20 lymph nodes and the section removed from the upper R lobe came back. We're told that the upper lobe nodule wasn't cancer, it was actually a fungal infection. That's the good news.

The bad news is that 3 of the lymph nodes were involved. 1 of them is in the mediastinum, near the heart/esophagus/trachea and in between the 2 lungs... which, we're told, isn't good. Also, there were multiple foci (3, to be exact) of cancer in the lower R lobe, not just the one that showed up on the CT, X-ray, and PET scan. So that's bad. No one will say exactly how bad; they're giving vague generalities. But lymph node involvement and multiple sites can't be good, when it comes to cancer.
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