Virginia,

I was diagnosed with mets to the lungs at one point. I asked for a biopsy and it came back negative for cancer even though my ENT was sure it was cancer. Turns out it was inflammation from aspiration of food particles into the lungs. One on the left and one on the right.

If your mom has not had this biopsied, you might want to consider that before continuing treatment.

This was when I had my recurrence. They would not have aggressively treated the tumor in my neck if they had gone on thinking I had mets to the lungs. My ENT was recommending chemo with palliative care.

I switched doctors after that one.