starting over, great idea.

ktri, just wondering how long between diagnosis and her death without treatments.

Mom was given 6-9 months and she died in about 6 1/2 and that was with treatments.

She was diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread to her ribs. Very sad story.

Mom had complaine dof pain in her chest/rib cage for months. The doctor treated her for some form of arthritis. She fell in the bathroom at home, and when they xrayed her ribs at the hospital ER they said she had indeed broken a rib, but it was eaten away by cancer. They called the oncologist in to the ER and that was the beginning of the end of her life.

ALl during the prior summer, when she phone her doctor to tell him of the pain, he told her it was the humisity. Take more pain medicine. He never did any tests.