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Originally Posted by Paladin
ETA: Do we have any doctors who will know if she has to get on chemo? I've heard that can really take a physical toll. That could force her to retire.
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It depends. They just did the surgery today. It'll be some time before the the final pathology report is done. I'm sure they took some lymph nodes too. For non-VIPs pathology usually takes a few days or so, although in rare cases it may take longer.
Subsequent treatment will depend on what kind of tumor it is, and its staging. Staging is complicated.
I saw one report that said the initial pathology report was a non-small-cell lung cancer. It wasn't clear if that was based on biopsies of the nodule before the surgery, or a rapid frozen section during the surgery, or a preliminary pathology report after the surgery.
For NSCLC, chemotherapy is often part of the treatment.
I wouldn't hazard any guesses at this point.
Most people are out of the hospital within a few days of a lobectomy.