lung cancer staging question

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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:04:24 -0500

I have a question about staging and lung cancer. I apologize in advance
for my lack of information and details. My aunt is not very proactive in
getting specifics.

She is 54 and was diagnosed with lung cancer 1 year ago this past
december. The cancer was in her lymph nodes and it was so large it was
masking another tumor in her lungs.

She did 6 months of chemo and 28 days of radiation. That treatment
shrunk the nodes and killed the tumor.

This December they found another tumor in her stomach that they say was
"a piece of the tumor in the lung" and it has fallen into the area of
the lung. I am not very familar with the correct terminology, but this
is how she relayed the story to me.

How is it that you can have lung cancer in your stomach?

The doctor that initially treated the lung cancer has now directed her
to a lung cancer specialist to do more testing.

Could this be stage III where the lung cancer has spread to other
organs? I have mostly seen references to spreading to bones, brain?

thanks

-A

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