I'm a chemo nurse with a lot of experience with lung cancer. If they cut it out, but did no other coincidental treatment, it was determined that her health was too frail to stand it. They never just cut out a few nodules without at least scheduling radiation or supplemental chemo to ensure they got it all. Cancerous tumors may look like they have well defined borders, but there are microscopic tendrils that spread out throughout surrounding tissues and must be killed off through supplemental treatment. That they didn't do this is telling.
She's toast. The good news is, it's not a painful way to go...
