My mom died of cancer.Started in the lung (she was a serious smoker) and then it spread to her brain and liver.Lung cancer tends to metastasize...that's where the real danger is.
Hate to post this, but these are the survival rates for lung cancer and they are not all that good. Hopefully it is an early stage and not the small cell type but listening to him talking it does not seem like it:
Survival Rates by Stages
Some doctors rely on a more detailed prognostic tool based on a staging system called tumor, nodes, and metastasis (TNM). These survival rates are the actual percentage of a sampling of people who were diagnosed with either NSCLC or SCLC and who were alive at 2 years and at 5 years.
Stage IA1: 97% (2 years); 90% (5 years)
Stage IA2: 94%; 85%
Stage IA3: 92%; 80%
Stage IB: 89%; 73%
Stage IIA: 82%; 65%
Stage IIB: 76%; 56%
Stage IIIA: 65%; 41%
Stage IIIB: 47%; 24%
Stage IIIC: 30%; 12%
The over all survival rate for all types of lung cancer at 5 years is:
Stage IVA: 23%; 10%
Stage IVB: 10%; 0%
Usually, when someone says he or she has, “advanced lung cancer,” how much longer do you the person lives? I had an aunt who learned that she had lung cancer that was caused by exposure to asbestos. She died about 2.5 months later.