Hi everyone,I was just reading some of the posts dealing with lymp nodes that has left me kind of puzzeled.On me yhey removed a tumor 10.5 centimeters in size(softball size) and 17 lymph nodes which 2 had been effected.Why will they do surgery on some that have node involvement and others they say they cannot do surgery because a few nodes were effected?Mine was stage2b(T2,N1,One peribronchial node and 1 10R node.grade 3 carcinoma.Does that mean my effected nodes were limited to inside the lung. I have seen many posts in here how folks with smaller tumors than mine were not elgible for surgery because of a few nodes involvement.I just wondered why they could do surgery on me and not them?Mike