Thank you for your quick response. I'm trying to find the best advice on my mother's follow up care and my best hope that some one gives me the answer I want to hear. My mother has never smoked and follwoing the surgery the doctor (who has an odd way of speaking) said if she were to go from anything it wouldn't be cancer following the surgery he had just performed. This sudden change of plans is so unexpected after recieving other information for over three months.