3rd bout with cancer? Enlarged lymph node on neck? 3 broken ribs? Not MD-Anon, but this seems like metastatic lung cancer…
“Lung carcinomas when detected are most often in a metastatic stage IV. Lung carcinomas metastasize by lymphatic as well as blood vessels. When careful evaluation is done in resected lung carcinomas, vascular invasion is often seen in low-stage tumors, which usually results in increased incidence of recurrence as well as shortened survival of the patient [1]. Whereas metastasis via the lymphatic route usually takes longer until distant metastases are set, spreading via blood vessels will set early on distant metastases. Lung carcinomas have some preferential sites for metastasis, such as the brain, bones, and adrenal glands. Other organs are involved usually in late stage of the disease. Within the different types of lung carcinomas, there is also a preferential metastatic site, such as liver metastasis in small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) and brain metastasis in SCLC and adenocarcinoma [2–4]. In recent years, brain metastasis are increasingly seen in adenocarcinomas with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations and EML4ALK1 rearrangement, whereas squamous cell carcinomas in many cases have a tendency to locally invade the thoracic wall [4, 5].”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4821869/